New 64K SIM came in the mail yesterday

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Marty - 08 Dec 2005 19:36 GMT

I got a 64K smartchip SIM from Cingular in the mail, saying I should install
it in my old phone for improved roaming.

I called to make sure it would work in the phone I'm using which is
different than the one I got from them (which my son is using), and
different than the one my son got (it's an unlocked phone that used to be
ATTWS).

I noticed 2 immediate changes: one, the menu for selecting the carrier is
now disabled, and set to automatic; and two, the "roaming" icon seems to
always be on when connected to Cingular's network (maybe because it was an
AT&T phone originally?).

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Otto Pylot - 09 Dec 2005 02:56 GMT

> I got a 64K smartchip SIM from Cingular in the mail, saying I should install
> it in my old phone for improved roaming.
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> always be on when connected to Cingular's network (maybe because it was an
> AT&T phone originally?).

Did you request the SIM from Cingular or did they just send it to you
automatically because of the merge?

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tmoran@acm.org - 09 Dec 2005 07:12 GMT

>Did you request the SIM from Cingular or did they just send it to you

I too received an unsolicited 64K SIM, for one of my Family Talk
Cingular phones (a Motorolo T720). No indication whether I should expect
more, or that contacts in the old SIM would be lost if I just swapped
per their instructions.

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Marty - 12 Dec 2005 22:43 GMT

Somewhere around Fri, 09 Dec 2005 01:12:23 -0600, while reading
alt.cellular.cingular, I think I thought I saw this post from
tmoran@acm.org:

>>Did you request the SIM from Cingular or did they just send it to you
> I too received an unsolicited 64K SIM, for one of my Family Talk
>Cingular phones (a Motorolo T720). No indication whether I should expect
>more, or that contacts in the old SIM would be lost if I just swapped
>per their instructions.

I called them to find out what the deal was. I can still read the contents
of my old sim, and I can transfer from the sim to phone and back to the new
sim.

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Marty - 12 Dec 2005 22:42 GMT

Somewhere around Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:56:08 -0800, while reading
alt.cellular.cingular, I think I thought I saw this post from Otto Pylot
<otto@bogus.address.invalid>:

>> I got a 64K smartchip SIM from Cingular in the mail, saying I should install
>> it in my old phone for improved roaming.
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
>Did you request the SIM from Cingular or did they just send it to you
>automatically because of the merge?

No, and no. I've been a Cingular customer from the start, but I happened to
get hold of a former AT&T phone, and when my Cingular phone started having
some problems, I got the AT&T phone unlocked and used it with my Cingular
SIM card. But the new card was for whatever phone I was using, and didn't
matter which one it was.

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