Help with new 64K SIM card!
Please help! I recently had to buy a new SIM card (well, my daughter lost her phone). I bought a new phone for myself (Samsung P207), installed my old 32k card in it, and gave my daughter the old phone (LG 1400). The new card has a very poor reception, it's up and down, and drops calls all the time. I know it's not the phone. If I swap the cards and put the old 32k card in LG, it works perfectly, full bar. The 64k card has bad reception even with the brand new Samsung (1-2 bar instead of 5-6 with the 32k card). I even tried another LG 1400 - same story. the old card works, and the new doesn't. On top of that all my incoming calls an all 3 lines are being duplicted with a mysterious "incoming roaming" or FFMR. I called Cingular rep, and they ...
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I don't know what to do about the card, other than see if a store may have an old 32K sim card around. As for the FFMR, as long as you have a national plan, that doesnt matter. That's just our old billing code to show when you were off of our network.
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Thanks, Shayby. I will shop around for a 32k card, but I doubt any stores still carry them. As far as FFMR is concerned, I know there are no roaming charges since I am on a natioanal plan. The point is that this happened right after I replaced my sim card, in my calling area, in my home. I didn't have this before. This is weird. Anyway, thanks a lot.
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Not a problem. From what I understand some stores still have those old sim cards around for phones that are "pre-merger" I can't guarentee it but its worth a try. What state do you live in?
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the reason why ur 64k sim card doesnt work as well is becasue right now ur still using the old sim network... they have a new network with the combines gsm ( old att and cingular) that has yet to be comined yet... so cingular cust still use there network and vice versa they are right now market by market chaing the network code so the new sim card will read both network as one... the new sim card are having trouble becasue they are set to recognize the combines network but oesnt have it
kinda of like if you put to much power into something else bad results... dont worry in the next little while service will improve
kinda of like if you put to much power into something else bad results... dont worry in the next little while service will improve
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