Nokia contract???
Has anyone who acctually works for cingular heard something to the effect that we will only sell bar style phones by Nokia? I read this on another board but it seems a rather broad agreement
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I don't see that happening. We're the carriers, without us. Nokia's phones are pretty much shiny paperweights.
Besides, having a wide selcection is a mark of pride for most carriers. It's how they overcompensate since they can't own Humvees or get into extreme sports.
Besides, having a wide selcection is a mark of pride for most carriers. It's how they overcompensate since they can't own Humvees or get into extreme sports.
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FlyDog said:
I don't see that happening. We're the carriers, without us. Nokia's phones are pretty much shiny paperweights.
Besides, having a wide selcection is a mark of pride for most carriers. It's how they overcompensate since they can't own Humvees or get into extreme sports.
Your joking, North America is drop in the bucket for Nokia, they make their REAL MONEY in Europe and Asia.
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austin316 said:FlyDog said:
I don't see that happening. We're the carriers, without us. Nokia's phones are pretty much shiny paperweights.
Besides, having a wide selcection is a mark of pride for most carriers. It's how they overcompensate since they can't own Humvees or get into extreme sports.
Your joking, North America is drop in the bucket for Nokia, they make their REAL MONEY in Europe and Asia.
Anyone with 50 million+ subscribers is going to have a little "pull" with the manufacturers.
If Cingular has such an agreement with Nokia, I haven't heard of it. As a matter of fact, there are some Nokia flips coming shortly from Cingular from what I have heard.
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Al_Swearengen said:
Anyone with 50 million+ subscribers is going to have a little "pull" with the manufacturers.
If Cingular has such an agreement with Nokia, I haven't heard of it. As a matter of fact, there are some Nokia flips coming shortly from Cingular from what I have heard.
the agreement exists, and just means that the only BAR phones we will sell will be Nokia, not that we CAN'T sell Nokia flip phones 😉
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jinx7676 said:
the agreement exists, and just means that the only BAR phones we will sell will be Nokia, not that we CAN'T sell Nokia flip phones 😉
This must be pretty new because we have several non Nokia bar phones.
Seimens c61
Seimens ct66
Samsung c207
Seimens s66
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COR stores do not though... We stopped carrying anything other than Nokia bar phones in February, the 15th I believe. Only exception to that rule is the PDA devices or the Blackberry devices. 😁
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we do have that agreement with nokia. that's why we stopped selling the Sony Ericsson T237. siemens is pulling out of the north american market anyways, so we'll stop selling those soon as well.
i know because people got reprimanded on my floor for selling the T237.
xoxo
i know because people got reprimanded on my floor for selling the T237.
xoxo
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Al_Swearengen said:jinx7676 said:
the agreement exists, and just means that the only BAR phones we will sell will be Nokia, not that we CAN'T sell Nokia flip phones 😉
This must be pretty new because we have several non Nokia bar phones.
Seimens c61
Seimens ct66
Samsung c207
Seimens s66
what market are you in , and are you COR, or an agent?
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jinx7676 said:Al_Swearengen said:
Anyone with 50 million+ subscribers is going to have a little "pull" with the manufacturers.
If Cingular has such an agreement with Nokia, I haven't heard of it. As a matter of fact, there are some Nokia flips coming shortly from Cingular from what I have heard.
the agreement exists, and just means that the only BAR phones we will sell will be Nokia, not that we CAN'T sell Nokia flip phones 😉
Th only bar phone that is not included in the agreement is the Samsung C207
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NRushing said:
Has anyone who acctually works for cingular heard something to the effect that we will only sell bar style phones by Nokia? I read this on another board but it seems a rather broad agreement
yes in stores we only sell Nokia bars. online they sell other makes like SE, and Samsung as well
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What??????
Please correct me if I am wrong but I am interpreting your statement to say we ONLY sell Nokias in store and that other brands are available online.
If that was your intent you are very incorrect.
Please correct me if I am wrong but I am interpreting your statement to say we ONLY sell Nokias in store and that other brands are available online.
If that was your intent you are very incorrect.
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Yeah, I'm just a TDMA care monkey but i've got Samsungs like nobody's business.
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texaswireless said:
What??????
Please correct me if I am wrong but I am interpreting your statement to say we ONLY sell Nokias in store and that other brands are available online.
If that was your intent you are very incorrect.
i mean that the only BAR style phones we sell in store are Nokias. Other BAR style phones are available online. We still sell everybody's flips, of course 😉
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NRushing said:
Aye... so all this means we won't be offering the moto slvr v8?
i haven't heard of us carrying it yet, but i did hear something about possibly carrying the PEBL V6
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From what I've heard from my Nokia rep, Cingular did sign an exclusivity contract with Nokia for candy bar style phones. So in other words, Nokia is the only manufacturer of candy bar style phones that Cingular will carry from here on out. All other brands arre at their end of life, so once they are sold out they are gone.
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But then again....I also talked to my Motorola rep and Cingular is supposed to carry the SLVR which is a candy bar style phone. So I'm not sure. 😳 😕 🙄
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Surely we couldn't agree to something like that I mean to say we we only carry edge phones from a certain manufacter is one thing but a style of phone? that's like some one trying to copywrite laptops
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It's not so far fetched, especially if they get a better price by doing so.
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NRushing said:
Surely we couldn't agree to something like that I mean to say we we only carry edge phones from a certain manufacter is one thing but a style of phone? that's like some one trying to copywrite laptops
its true. why do you think there was a deadline to ship out all our Siemens phones, our SE Bars, and why we dont carry the Samsung C207 in store?
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it is true that we have a contract with nokia to only sell bar phones from nokia . This contract is in effect til 2007
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But what about the SLVR and the PEBL??? I was told that Cingular would have exclusivity on those as well as the RAZR
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