The Plans on the Website are Changing asI Write This Post

Went on cingular.com and had error messages getting to rate plan pages, then
they were available a couple minutes later. Gone are the Superhome plans
for Detroit. They are renamed Regional GSM plans w/o the extended area w/a
GAIT phone. They also have re-priced the 6340i and t62u to $69.99 each.
The push is on for GSM. Two GSM-only phones are now $0.00.

Chris

Well it will be a while before I get rid of my 6340i. Half of Michigan,
mainly the northern half doesn't have GSM and I spend a lot of time up there
so until they remedy that I don't have a use for gsm only. And there will be
a lot of suprised people when they find they have no coverage.
"Chris Russell" <noone@nowhere.nospam> wrote in message
news:4L8Tb.35673$P%1.28157294@newssvr28.news.prodi gy.com...
> Went on cingular.com and had error messages getting to rate plan pages,
then
> they were available a couple minutes later. Gone are the Superhome plans
> for Detroit. They are renamed Regional GSM plans w/o the extended area
w/a
> GAIT phone. They also have re-priced the 6340i and t62u to $69.99 each.
> The push is on for GSM. Two GSM-only phones are now $0.00.
>
> Chris
>
>

> Went on cingular.com and had error messages getting to rate plan pages,
then
> they were available a couple minutes later. Gone are the Superhome plans
> for Detroit. They are renamed Regional GSM plans w/o the extended area
w/a
> GAIT phone. They also have re-priced the 6340i and t62u to $69.99 each.
> The push is on for GSM. Two GSM-only phones are now $0.00.

They was waiting until most of the neighboring carriers had time to switch
over.
The main one they was waiting on here was centennial wireless in the top
part of Indiana.

That is pretty much finished, so they have phased out the plan.

I will switch to GSM only, IF they come out with a
3 Watt GSM car phone for use in the united states.
Until that happens, I am sticking with my old analog stuff.

I'm pretty disappointed about the new rates. They've basically reduced
minutes by 50 to 100 minutes per plan and left price along. It now cost
19.95 for extra phone on the home plan. I think they are making a mistake
because they are going to force some people back to the old land line if
this keeps up.





"Chris Russell" <noone@nowhere.nospam> wrote in message
news:4L8Tb.35673$P%1.28157294@newssvr28.news.prodi gy.com...
> Went on cingular.com and had error messages getting to rate plan pages,
then
> they were available a couple minutes later. Gone are the Superhome plans
> for Detroit. They are renamed Regional GSM plans w/o the extended area
w/a
> GAIT phone. They also have re-priced the 6340i and t62u to $69.99 each.
> The push is on for GSM. Two GSM-only phones are now $0.00.
>
> Chris
>
>

On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 23:39:26 GMT, "N9WOS"
<n9wos@nobug.worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>They was waiting until most of the neighboring carriers had time to switch
>over.
>The main one they was waiting on here was centennial wireless in the top
>part of Indiana.

Some markets (Atlanta, New Orleans) are allowing GAIT or GSM on Region
plans, while others (Tennessee, Kentucky) are allowing only GSM on
Region plans. The ones where GAIT phones are being allowed generally
seem to be markets with large GSM-less areas (usually areas where both
800 MHz carriers are CDMA and Cing/AT&T/T-Mo/Dobson/etc. have little
or no 1900 coverage, etc.)

The Kentucky situation is a bit puzzling; I'd expected Cingular to
have waited until Dobson finishes building out its GSM (Ramcell and
Appalachian are going CDMA, and Bluegrass is almost certain to go
CDMA) in central KY before pushing GSM-only phones in that area.

-SC
--
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....
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"TooTall" <TooTall@TooTall.com> wrote in message news:<101r4v8ki31pt11@corp.supernews.com>...
> I'm pretty disappointed about the new rates. They've basically reduced
> minutes by 50 to 100 minutes per plan and left price along. It now cost
> 19.95 for extra phone on the home plan. I think they are making a mistake
> because they are going to force some people back to the old land line if
> this keeps up.
>
>
They are finally offering nation wide Phone to Phone minutes. Even at
the loss of a few minutes, this can be a plus for some people. I wish
they had made it optional. I guess they figured that if you liked the
old rates, you would have signed up for them by now.

The local family share planes really suck here in KC. It's $20 per
phone with no phone to phone minutes. Makes one think Verizon.

Tom