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Jack - 31 Oct 2003 23:07 GMT

Anyone else been told by Cingular that their old phone can't be
repaired so they must upgrade their service. When you up grade,
everyone else in your family talk plan also has to upgrade. Now your
are stuck with new 2 year contracts when all you needed was a
replacement phone for the old technology?

Cingular is going down hill.

Need to use deceptive marketing and sales tactics to keep customers.

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JRW - 01 Nov 2003 02:55 GMT

> Anyone else been told by Cingular that their old phone can't be
> repaired so they must upgrade their service.

I could see that being the case if it was an old analog phone
that was in use when digital replaced analog in a given are.

Now what if it was a TDMA digital phone? Cingular would be
admitting that TDMA isn't available in that area anymore.
It would also mean that anyone that signed up for their
national 1900/800 MHz roaming plan can't use their circa
year 2000 phones in that area.

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JRW - 01 Nov 2003 17:57 GMT

> Now what if it was a TDMA digital phone? Cingular would be
> admitting that TDMA isn't available in that area anymore.
> It would also mean that anyone that signed up for their
> national 1900/800 MHz roaming plan can't use their circa
> year 2000 phones in that area.

>> I think I recall reading where Cingular had signed roaming data
>> agreements with these two carriers separately (on the GSM/GPRS
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>>
>> http://www.cingular.com/about/latest_news/03_05_01

I read the link that "bones_boy" provided above and my first reaction
was GREAT, GSM will be running in 93% by end of this year and 99% by
end of 2004. But when I read it again, they were referring to MOU
(Minutes of Use).

I suppose that refers to the top NFL cities. Trade publications in
the late 80s referred to cellular rollouts in the top markets as
National Football League cities.

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