GSM in New Orleans

I was in the mall last night in Metairie (N.O. suburb) and the Cingular
employees were busy setting up new phones after hours. I spied several
new (to Cingular in THIS area) GSM phones from S/E, Nokia, etc. I asked
them through the locked security gate if they were stocking up GSM-only
phones. They said yes; available tomorrow!

I've been to the Cingular site and no new phones for Metairie/New
Orleans area codes there. Also no announcements in the newspaper.

Anyone know if the official (hard) opening was today?

[posted via phonescoop.com]

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GSM only yeah right....You mean GSM, TDMA, AMP, Satelite phone...
"Michael Hamner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I was in the mall last night in Metairie (N.O. suburb) and the Cingular
> employees were busy setting up new phones after hours. I spied several
> new (to Cingular in THIS area) GSM phones from S/E, Nokia, etc. I asked
> them through the locked security gate if they were stocking up GSM-only
> phones. They said yes; available tomorrow!
>
> I've been to the Cingular site and no new phones for Metairie/New
> Orleans area codes there. Also no announcements in the newspaper.
>
> Anyone know if the official (hard) opening was today?
>
> [posted via phonescoop.com]

What's your point? I don't care about "TDMA, AMP(sic), Satelite (sic)...
meh
P.S. Get a ***** checker

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"Special Agent Fox Mulder" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> GSM only yeah right....You mean GSM, TDMA, AMP, Satelite phone...
> "Michael Hamner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > I was in the mall last night in Metairie (N.O. suburb) and the Cingular
> > employees were busy setting up new phones after hours. I spied several
> > new (to Cingular in THIS area) GSM phones from S/E, Nokia, etc. I asked
> > them through the locked security gate if they were stocking up GSM-only
> > phones. They said yes; available tomorrow!
> >
> > I've been to the Cingular site and no new phones for Metairie/New
> > Orleans area codes there. Also no announcements in the newspaper.
> >
> > Anyone know if the official (hard) opening was today?
> >
> > [posted via phonescoop.com]
>
>

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:34:11 -0400, Michael Hamner wrote:

> I was in the mall last night in Metairie (N.O. suburb) and the Cingular
> employees were busy setting up new phones after hours. I spied several
> new (to Cingular in THIS area) GSM phones from S/E, Nokia, etc. I asked
> them through the locked security gate if they were stocking up GSM-only
> phones. They said yes; available tomorrow!
>
> I've been to the Cingular site and no new phones for Metairie/New
> Orleans area codes there. Also no announcements in the newspaper.
>
> Anyone know if the official (hard) opening was today?
>
> [posted via phonescoop.com]

Don't know if opening was today but do know that Scans were done for the
GSM upgrade. I know someone who drove in New Orleans and had scanned for
Cingular. Getting ready for web enabled phones. GSM uses different
equipment I think. Power levels, etc.
So soon we can drive and surf at the same time. Yikes!