V600 and Cingular/ATT towers

My V600 was purchased before Cingular and ATT merged. It has never had very
good fringe reception (compared to my daughter's V551 and my wife's older
Nokia). Since Cingular and ATT have merged I wonder if I am lacking access
to ATT towers because I don't have some new firmware in my V600. Does anyone
have any comments? (I'd ask the Cingular guys, but their responses have
always been suspect).

Mike

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In article <[email protected]>,
Mike Marquis <[email protected]> wrote:
>My V600 was purchased before Cingular and ATT merged. It has never had very
>good fringe reception (compared to my daughter's V551 and my wife's older
>Nokia). Since Cingular and ATT have merged I wonder if I am lacking access
>to ATT towers because I don't have some new firmware in my V600. Does anyone
>have any comments? (I'd ask the Cingular guys, but their responses have
>always been suspect).

There is nothing in your setup that should prevent you from having access
to both AT&T and Cingular towers. If you have a Cingular SIM (which is how
I read your description) it should roam on AT&T towers just fine.

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In <[email protected]> on Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:10:55 +0000 (UTC),
[email protected] (Mike S.) wrote:

>In article <[email protected]>,
>Mike Marquis <[email protected]> wrote:

>>My V600 was purchased before Cingular and ATT merged. It has never had very
>>good fringe reception (compared to my daughter's V551 and my wife's older
>>Nokia). Since Cingular and ATT have merged I wonder if I am lacking access
>>to ATT towers because I don't have some new firmware in my V600. Does anyone
>>have any comments? (I'd ask the Cingular guys, but their responses have
>>always been suspect).
>
>There is nothing in your setup that should prevent you from having access
>to both AT&T and Cingular towers. If you have a Cingular SIM (which is how
>I read your description) it should roam on AT&T towers just fine.

The difference is that such roaming only works when there is no "usable" home
network signal, and a "usable" signal can actually be pretty crappy.

In other words, frequency band issues aside, ATTWS (blue) handsets will only
roam on the Cingular (orange) network if there is no "usable" ATTWS (blue)
network signal, and vice versa, even with ENS. Thus in any given location a
blue handset may get much better service (on the blue network) than an orange
handset (given a "usable" orange signal), and vice versa.

The new Cingular ENS handsets and Cingular (orange) 64K SIMs (if you have
both) make it possible for Cingular to manually change your "home" network
(blue or orange) OTA (over the air), thus giving subscribers the better of the
two networks until the two networks are actually integrated.

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