NOKIA 6200 from cingular has some settings blocked!!!
the AT&T version of this phone, has "System Selection" a option to manuly search for service, or to place it on automatic..
anyway the cingular version does not have it, and I just spoke to NOKIA and was told that CINGULAR BLOCKED OUT THOSE SETTINGS
so does anybody know of a way to change that, and to be able to pick other carriers,
so far where I am, even in the OFFICIAL dead spots (cingular acknowledged it themselves) since its in and around a city, where cingular does have coverage, I am picking up 0-1 bar of service, and still does not search for another carrier (AT&T GSM has full service there)
from the way NOKIA put it, ("CINGULAR BLOCKED OUT THOSE SETTINGS OF SYSTEM SELECTION...") sounds like, this plan of free roaming i...
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anyway the cingular version does not have it, and I just spoke to NOKIA and was told that CINGULAR BLOCKED OUT THOSE SETTINGS
so does anybody know of a way to change that, and to be able to pick other carriers,
so far where I am, even in the OFFICIAL dead spots (cingular acknowledged it themselves) since its in and around a city, where cingular does have coverage, I am picking up 0-1 bar of service, and still does not search for another carrier (AT&T GSM has full service there)
from the way NOKIA put it, ("CINGULAR BLOCKED OUT THOSE SETTINGS OF SYSTEM SELECTION...") sounds like, this plan of free roaming i...
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Techincally, when these companies say FREE NATIONWIDE ROAMING (Cingular / T-Mobile), you pay no roaming fees on "their netowrk." "Their network" only includes the towers they own and operate in addition to those areas where they have roaming agreements with other companies (i.e. T-Mobile customers using Einstein PCS in Wisconsin Dells). It does not mean that you can force your phone onto another network in a city where there is no agreement. This is one of the most debated issues in our store. There is more than 1 definition of "roaming" and it confuses people. Another example, I'm a T-Mobile customer in Chicago and when I try to manually push the phone onto the AT&T Wireless network, it rejects me because there is no agreement here. But if ...
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Techincally, when these companies say FREE NATIONWIDE ROAMING (Cingular / T-Mobile), you pay no roaming fees on "their netowrk." "Their network" only includes the towers they own and operate in addition to those areas where they have roaming agreements with other companies (i.e. T-Mobile customers using Einstein PCS in Wisconsin Dells). It does not mean that you can force your phone onto another network in a city where there is no agreement. This is one of the most debated issues in our store. There is more than 1 definition of "roaming" and it confuses people. Another example, I'm a T-Mobile customer in Chicago and when I try to manually push the phone onto the AT&T Wireless network, it rejects me because
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Well, I hate to go too far off the AT&T Wireless forum, but Cingular's map shows more coverage nationwide, however i'm not sure how accurate it really is. T-Mobile's map shows mostly metro and interstate road coverage whereas Cingular's shows metro/interstate road and more rural (i.e. central and southern Illinois). As far as the east, you're gonna get about the same coverage because Cingular uses T-Mobile's network in the New York region and T-Mobile uses Cingular's network along the coast near the south (Carolinas, etc.)
The real question is, what will the new map look like when AT&T Wireless and Cingular overlay their maps once the acquisition goes through. I guess a good map to check is the AT&T National GSM map because the purple are...
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The real question is, what will the new map look like when AT&T Wireless and Cingular overlay their maps once the acquisition goes through. I guess a good map to check is the AT&T National GSM map because the purple are...
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