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  1. #1
    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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  2. #2
    Harry
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    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!



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    Kevin J Collins
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    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
    news:[email protected]...
    > 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!






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    SMS
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    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.



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    tom glaab
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    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.




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    SMS
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    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.



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    l e o
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    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.



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    SMS
    Guest

    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.



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    Ben Skversky
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    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?
    >






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    Andy S
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    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





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    ontherocks62
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    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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    ontherocks62
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    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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  13. #13
    Bert Hyman
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    Re: SIM card from "regular" plan in go phone?

    [email protected] (Mike S.) wrote in
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    > 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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    ontherocks62
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    Re: SIM card from "regular" plan in go phone?


    Thanks a lot Mike S


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