justalk out of business

How long before the ESN of a phone is freed by Cingular when the
provider is out of business?

I ran out of minutes last weekend.

Evan Platt wrote:
> On 27 Jun 2005 10:42:54 -0700, klugja@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> >How long before the ESN of a phone is freed by Cingular when the
> >provider is out of business?
>
> Huh?
Because Cingular has my ESN (electronic serial #) in their computer,
and Justalk is out of business, my phone cannot be used to sign up
with another carrier. Justalk was a reseller of AT&T wireless sevices.
Alternative AT&T TDMA pre-paids abound, such as gobeyondwireless.com
and callplus. They will not allow me to use this phone until my old
plan is cancelled. I have not tried gophone or whatever Cingular calls
it now.
>
> >I ran out of minutes last weekend.
>
> Ok, and..?
Since Justalk is out of business, I cannot buy more minutes. I am
getting another phone, even though I have a perfectly good AT&T TDMA
phone.

It is time to change technologies. Tdma is a dead end.

klugja@hotmail.com wrote:
> Evan Platt wrote:
>
>>On 27 Jun 2005 10:42:54 -0700, klugja@hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>>How long before the ESN of a phone is freed by Cingular when the
>>>provider is out of business?
>>
>>Huh?
>
> Because Cingular has my ESN (electronic serial #) in their computer,
> and Justalk is out of business, my phone cannot be used to sign up
> with another carrier. Justalk was a reseller of AT&T wireless sevices.
> Alternative AT&T TDMA pre-paids abound, such as gobeyondwireless.com
> and callplus. They will not allow me to use this phone until my old
> plan is cancelled. I have not tried gophone or whatever Cingular calls
> it now.
>
>>>I ran out of minutes last weekend.
>>
>>Ok, and..?
>
> Since Justalk is out of business, I cannot buy more minutes. I am
> getting another phone, even though I have a perfectly good AT&T TDMA
> phone.
>

One thing that TDMA has, here in Phoenix anyway, is that you could roam
onto analog the networks which cover a large part of the state. I really
miss that with my Cingular GSM.

Jerome Zelinske wrote:
> It is time to change technologies. Tdma is a dead end.
>
> klugja@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>> Evan Platt wrote:
>>
>>> On 27 Jun 2005 10:42:54 -0700, klugja@hotmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> How long before the ESN of a phone is freed by Cingular when the
>>>> provider is out of business?
>>>
>>>
>>> Huh?
>>
>>
>> Because Cingular has my ESN (electronic serial #) in their computer,
>> and Justalk is out of business, my phone cannot be used to sign up
>> with another carrier. Justalk was a reseller of AT&T wireless sevices.
>> Alternative AT&T TDMA pre-paids abound, such as gobeyondwireless.com
>> and callplus. They will not allow me to use this phone until my old
>> plan is cancelled. I have not tried gophone or whatever Cingular calls
>> it now.
>>
>>>> I ran out of minutes last weekend.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, and..?
>>
>>
>> Since Justalk is out of business, I cannot buy more minutes. I am
>> getting another phone, even though I have a perfectly good AT&T TDMA
>> phone.
>>

Jerry wrote:
> One thing that TDMA has, here in Phoenix anyway, is that you could roam
> onto analog the networks which cover a large part of the state. I really
> miss that with my Cingular GSM.

You can do that with the CDMA providers, too.


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Steve Sobol wrote:
> Jerry wrote:
>
>> One thing that TDMA has, here in Phoenix anyway, is that you could
>> roam onto analog the networks which cover a large part of the state. I
>> really miss that with my Cingular GSM.
>
>
> You can do that with the CDMA providers, too.

Now I just have to wait for my contract to run out. :^(

Or use that spammer that claims to be able to get anyone out of cell
phone contracts. ;^)

If you get the right phone. Most of my state and most of most of the
surrounding states have cdma.


Steve Sobol wrote:
> Jerry wrote:
>
>> One thing that TDMA has, here in Phoenix anyway, is that you could
>> roam onto analog the networks which cover a large part of the state. I
>> really miss that with my Cingular GSM.
>
>
> You can do that with the CDMA providers, too.
>
>

Joseph wrote:

> <jeromez1@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> If you get the right phone. Most of my state and most of most of the
>>surrounding states have cdma.
>
> And that state would be? (or is that classified?)

Wisconsin, if I recall correctly. Sprint, Verizon and US Cellular all
service that state. All are CDMA.

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Also Alltel and maybe others. Most of IL, MN, MI also are covered by
cdma.

Steve Sobol wrote:
> Joseph wrote:
>
>> <jeromez1@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>> If you get the right phone. Most of my state and most of most of
>>> the surrounding states have cdma.
>>
>>
>> And that state would be? (or is that classified?)
>
>
> Wisconsin, if I recall correctly. Sprint, Verizon and US Cellular all
> service that state. All are CDMA.
>