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- 06-08-2006, 04:04 PM #1Guest
I am currently in a two year contract but I want a new phone. Can I buy
a "Go" phone and put my current SIM in that phone and continue using my
current plan?
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- 06-08-2006, 04:48 PM #2HarryGuest
Re: SIM card from "regular" plan in go phone?
On 8 Jun 2006 15:04:37 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>I am currently in a two year contract but I want a new phone. Can I buy
>a "Go" phone and put my current SIM in that phone and continue using my
>current plan?
Absolutely!
- 06-09-2006, 12:33 PM #3Kevin J CollinsGuest
Re: SIM card from "regular" plan in go phone?
I actually had to do that: my nokia phone 6102 broke at the hinge, I did not
have insurance and nokia said cingular may give me a loaner phone while it
is being fixed...
Guess what? If you have insurance, you could get a loaner phone, but if you
don't you don't get a loaner phone.
so, I called Cingular and said I wanted a go phone, and nonchalently, I
asked "If I get a go phone, and put my sim chip in there - say I didn't have
fully charged battery, will I be able to have my contacts & phone number? "
They said yes, so I bought the 6030 (only until my 6102 gets fixed), so I
got it and poped my sim into the 6030 and lo and behold, it works... Since
I'm waiting for my 6102 to come back from getting repaied, I'm using this
prepaid phone until it comes back...
So, yes it does work
"Harry" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On 8 Jun 2006 15:04:37 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>
> >I am currently in a two year contract but I want a new phone. Can I buy
> >a "Go" phone and put my current SIM in that phone and continue using my
> >current plan?
>
> Absolutely!
- 06-09-2006, 03:13 PM #4SMSGuest
Re: SIM card from "regular" plan in go phone?
Harry wrote:
> On 8 Jun 2006 15:04:37 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> I am currently in a two year contract but I want a new phone. Can I buy
>> a "Go" phone and put my current SIM in that phone and continue using my
>> current plan?
>
> Absolutely!
I wonder how long until the carriers close this loophole. The prepaid
phones are generally sold below cost, with the idea that the airtime
costs will make up for it.
Verizon sells their InPulse phones at low prices at Target (when they go
on sale) but these phones can be used on any Verizon MVNO as well.
It seems that phones that are locked, are locked to the network, not
they type of service, even if it's prepaid or an MVNO.
- 06-09-2006, 03:20 PM #5tom glaabGuest
Re: SIM card from "regular" plan in go phone?
SMS wrote:
> I wonder how long until the carriers close this loophole. The prepaid
> phones are generally sold below cost, with the idea that the airtime
> costs will make up for it.
Loophole? If you buy the prepaid and use up whatever prepaid minutes
come with it, Cingular doesn't make a penny more than if you use it as
a cheap replacement for your (broken) subsidized phone.
Cingular should leave things as they are, because one of the great
attractions of GSM is the ability to swap out phones on a whim, and to
get phones your carrier might never offer.
tg.
- 06-09-2006, 04:29 PM #6SMSGuest
Re: SIM card from "regular" plan in go phone?
tom glaab wrote:
> SMS wrote:
>> I wonder how long until the carriers close this loophole. The prepaid
>> phones are generally sold below cost, with the idea that the airtime
>> costs will make up for it.
>
> Loophole? If you buy the prepaid and use up whatever prepaid minutes
> come with it, Cingular doesn't make a penny more than if you use it as
> a cheap replacement for your (broken) subsidized phone.
Yes, that's the problem. They don't get to sell you a non-subsidized
replacement phone at a high price, and they don't get you to sign a
contract extension for a subsidized phone. You're buying a subsidized
phone with the expectation that the subsidy will be made up with the
purchase of airtime.
- 06-09-2006, 05:40 PM #7l e oGuest
Re: SIM card from "regular" plan in go phone?
SMS wrote:
> tom glaab wrote:
>> SMS wrote:
>>> I wonder how long until the carriers close this loophole. The prepaid
>>> phones are generally sold below cost, with the idea that the airtime
>>> costs will make up for it.
>>
>> Loophole? If you buy the prepaid and use up whatever prepaid minutes
>> come with it, Cingular doesn't make a penny more than if you use it as
>> a cheap replacement for your (broken) subsidized phone.
>
> Yes, that's the problem. They don't get to sell you a non-subsidized
> replacement phone at a high price, and they don't get you to sign a
> contract extension for a subsidized phone. You're buying a subsidized
> phone with the expectation that the subsidy will be made up with the
> purchase of airtime.
The actual cost of the phones must be very low. They maybe sold at cost,
rather than below cost. And instead of telling them to close the
loophole, why don't you tell them they should sell people a replacement
phone at a reasonable price? So maybe this is an unspoken intended
purposes to encourage people to start using GoPhone and then switch to a
postpaid plan.
- 06-09-2006, 07:39 PM #8SMSGuest
Re: SIM card from "regular" plan in go phone?
l e o wrote:
> The actual cost of the phones must be very low.
New low-end phones cost the carrier around $40 wholesale.
> why don't you tell them they should sell people a replacement
> phone at a reasonable price?
Hey, I agree with this. I think it's very unethical that they have those
fake high prices, but they do so in order to get people to sign new
contracts for a big discount. It really hurts people that need a new
phone in the middle of the contract. Few people realize the workaround
of buying a prepaid phone and sticking a postpaid SIM into it (or the
CDMA method of simply changing the SID of the phone on-line).
> So maybe this is an unspoken intended
> purposes to encourage people to start using GoPhone and then switch to a
> postpaid plan.
Yes, they would like people to switch to postpaid, as it is much more
profitable. But they don't want existing post-paid customers to get
around the whole phone upgrade/contract renewal scam.
- 06-09-2006, 08:46 PM #9Ben SkverskyGuest
Re: SIM card from "regular" plan in go phone?
I've done that with T-Mobile on occasion.
<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I am currently in a two year contract but I want a new phone. Can I buy
> a "Go" phone and put my current SIM in that phone and continue using my
> current plan?
>
- 06-09-2006, 09:22 PM #10Andy SGuest
Re: SIM card from "regular" plan in go phone?
>"SMS" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
<snip>
> Hey, I agree with this. I think it's very unethical that they have those
> fake high prices, but they do so in order to get people to sign new
> contracts for a big discount. It really hurts people that need a new phone
> in the middle of the contract. Few people realize the workaround of buying
> a prepaid phone and sticking a postpaid SIM into it (or the CDMA method of
> simply changing the SID of the phone on-line).
>
You don't change the SID, youi change the ESN.
SID=System ID. The location. The ESN=Electronic Serial Number.
The ESN tells the system that your phone is valid
Andrew Sisson
VX 8100 on VZW since 1993
X497 on Cingular since 2006
- 01-07-2008, 07:04 AM #11ontherocks62Guest
Re: SIM card from "regular" plan in go phone?
Some where I read that the SIM swap has to be done before the Go Phone
is activated or otherwise it would be locked in the prepaid plan for six
months.
And more, if the Go Phone already came activated from the factory or
bought online from AT&T (which is always pre-activated with a plan) then
you are out of luck.
Is this true??
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- 01-07-2008, 01:50 PM #12ontherocks62Guest
Re: SIM card from "regular" plan in go phone?
Thanks Mike S. for the reply.
I am not so familiar with prepaid Go Phone plans. How does it work?
I buy the phone and use the talktime I have. There are no monthly bills
or any other bills to bother me ever?
So if I exhaust all the talk time in a few days and don't recharge
nothing happens? I get to keep the phone? AT&T doesn't bother me anyway
ever?
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- 01-08-2008, 02:01 PM #13Bert HymanGuest
Re: SIM card from "regular" plan in go phone?
[email protected] (Mike S.) wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> Once you buy a GoPhone handset, it is yours, even if you never
> recharge the account.
Does AT&T sell pre-paid SIM cards without phones? What's the cost?
T-Mobile currently offers them for $10 with 10 minutes
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- 01-09-2008, 04:09 PM #14ontherocks62Guest
Re: SIM card from "regular" plan in go phone?
Thanks a lot Mike S
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