Siemens S56 won't work on Cingular?

Hi,
I bought an S56 from AT&T Wireless off my buddy who recently went to
another carrier. I tried to activate the S56 at my local Cingular
store, and they say it won't work. Although I didn't see him do it, the
asst. manager walked said he tried putting a Cingular SIM card in the
S56 and it couldn't find the Cingular network.

Does the S56 really not work on the Cingular network? If so, why? Is
it missing a GSM frequency that Cingular uses?

If this is true, then I can only activate the S56 on an AT&T plan and
won't be able to take advantage of the combined AT&T/Cingular GSM
networks. I guess I was naively believing the AT&T/Cingular marketing
hype that claims their networks were converged.

thanks,
Jonathan

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Yes it will but it needs to be UNLOCKED its easy and can be done by you or
someone from here can for a small price
http://www.howardforums.com/

I have gone here and gotten things that helped me to unlock a phone or 2
http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/forumdisplay.php?f=5

I use a T-Mobile Moto V66 on Cingular
"Jonathan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I bought an S56 from AT&T Wireless off my buddy who recently went to
> another carrier. I tried to activate the S56 at my local Cingular
> store, and they say it won't work. Although I didn't see him do it, the
> asst. manager walked said he tried putting a Cingular SIM card in the
> S56 and it couldn't find the Cingular network.
>
> Does the S56 really not work on the Cingular network? If so, why? Is
> it missing a GSM frequency that Cingular uses?
>
> If this is true, then I can only activate the S56 on an AT&T plan and
> won't be able to take advantage of the combined AT&T/Cingular GSM
> networks. I guess I was naively believing the AT&T/Cingular marketing
> hype that claims their networks were converged.
>
> thanks,
> Jonathan

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In <[email protected]> on Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:05:15 -0500,
Jonathan <[email protected]> wrote:

>I bought an S56 from AT&T Wireless off my buddy who recently went to
>another carrier. I tried to activate the S56 at my local Cingular
>store, and they say it won't work. Although I didn't see him do it, the
>asst. manager walked said he tried putting a Cingular SIM card in the
>S56 and it couldn't find the Cingular network.
>
>Does the S56 really not work on the Cingular network? If so, why? Is
>it missing a GSM frequency that Cingular uses?

It's probably locked to ATTWS.

>If this is true, then I can only activate the S56 on an AT&T plan

True, and better hurry, because those plans reportedly go away on Jan 1.

>and
>won't be able to take advantage of the combined AT&T/Cingular GSM
>networks.

False. ATTWS subscribers have free roaming on Cingular.

>I guess I was naively believing the AT&T/Cingular marketing
>hype that claims their networks were converged.

They are: reciprocal free roaming.

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Best regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES:
John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular>

John Navas wrote:
> [POSTED TO alt.cellular.cingular - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE]
>
> In <[email protected]> on Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:05:15 -0500,
> Jonathan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>I bought an S56 from AT&T Wireless off my buddy who recently went to
>>another carrier. I tried to activate the S56 at my local Cingular
>>store, and they say it won't work. Although I didn't see him do it, the
>>asst. manager walked said he tried putting a Cingular SIM card in the
>>S56 and it couldn't find the Cingular network.
>>
>>Does the S56 really not work on the Cingular network? If so, why? Is
>>it missing a GSM frequency that Cingular uses?
>
>
> It's probably locked to ATTWS.
>
>
>>If this is true, then I can only activate the S56 on an AT&T plan
>
>
> True, and better hurry, because those plans reportedly go away on Jan 1.
>
>
>>and
>>won't be able to take advantage of the combined AT&T/Cingular GSM
>>networks.
>
>
> False. ATTWS subscribers have free roaming on Cingular.
>
>
>>I guess I was naively believing the AT&T/Cingular marketing
>>hype that claims their networks were converged.
>
>
> They are: reciprocal free roaming.
>

Ok thanks for setting me straight. I managed to forget that the whole
"locking" issue would still be applicable.

thanks,
Jonathan