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Hi,
The other day, I was visiting my brother's house, and my new T637 (Cingular) searches for network and comes back to tell me no network is available. My brother, on the other hand, with his Siemens phone (AT&T Service) shows that he had great signal. How come my phone did not pick up AT&T signal? Aren't they supposed to be using each other's networks now?
I looked through the menus to find the available networks. Menu->Connect->GSM Networks did not list anynetworks. (Siemens phone listed a bunch). When I came back to my house, where there is Cingular signal, GSM Networks still shows an empty page.
I stopped by Cingular store, and the guy claims that AT&T customers can roam on Cingular, but not the other way around in San Francisc...
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The other day, I was visiting my brother's house, and my new T637 (Cingular) searches for network and comes back to tell me no network is available. My brother, on the other hand, with his Siemens phone (AT&T Service) shows that he had great signal. How come my phone did not pick up AT&T signal? Aren't they supposed to be using each other's networks now?
I looked through the menus to find the available networks. Menu->Connect->GSM Networks did not list anynetworks. (Siemens phone listed a bunch). When I came back to my house, where there is Cingular signal, GSM Networks still shows an empty page.
I stopped by Cingular store, and the guy claims that AT&T customers can roam on Cingular, but not the other way around in San Francisc...
(continues)
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What may be happening is that your IRDB (roam database) is not yet updated with the info to grab the ATT towers. Call in and ask for an IRDB push.
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actually, the funny thing i've heard is that att is using all cingular towers, but cingular is not yet using all att towers....i know it doesn't make any sense, but that's the situation.
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