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USCC Official 6255 Update

RingTone

Aug 29, 2005, 1:27 PM
Official notice sent to USCC Market Leaders

..."We are excited about offering this highly anticipated handset to our customers. However, we have had some last minute issues during our testing period. We currently do not have an accurate release date. We do, however, anticipate a launch around mid-October. We apologize for any inconvenience this delay may case."
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giftbuddy

Aug 29, 2005, 2:03 PM
Great, is that October of 2006 or 2007?
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PTCO911

Aug 29, 2005, 2:07 PM
Great does this mean that if US Cellular buys the Kansas Western Wireless assets that I can't use my phones until October?? 😳
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alejandro

Aug 29, 2005, 7:42 PM
no, it wil still work fine. just like if you buy one from another company it will, you just need to know how to program it because us cellular does not like a phone with another name.
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Gumbo76

Sep 2, 2005, 5:25 PM
That is easier said than done. How do you program a phone that has not already been programmed for US cellular. You say this like there are more than a handful of people who can do this. Do you know how to do this, or where one can go to do this?
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alejandro

Sep 2, 2005, 5:48 PM
if you actually want us cellular software you need to wait until its available, then you can send it to nokia and they can install it on there but you dont need software to program it for another company, hell, we have really old loaner phones that are for primeco, airtouch, bell atlantic, verizon startacs that are activated daily. If you don't mind not having data services all you need to do is do standard nam programming if its cdma, a retail store blew off a genuinly, in-need customer who paid too much for a 7135 with us cellular software on it, just because it was a verizon phone and said verizon on the outside, and it took me 30 minutes of my own time to program this phone which i had never even seen before because a retail store did no...
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giftbuddy

Sep 6, 2005, 1:01 PM
US CELLULAR does NOT and will NOT activate a non- USCC phone. They have in the past but will not anymore.
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alejandro

Sep 6, 2005, 7:46 PM
US Cellular will not, thats why the retail sends people to agents, so they can.
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Daenerys

Sep 7, 2005, 6:52 PM
Agents will not either.
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alejandro

Sep 7, 2005, 8:47 PM
speak for your market.
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