Re: Newbie Question

In article <sbqq045lef8biggsdb4jdn72ej5qfhlidm@4ax.com>,
Scott in SoCal <scottenaztlan@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I currently have a regular (post-paid) cell phone with AT&T. AT&T is
>currently selling a RAZR "Go Phone" for $129.99. Is it "locked" into
>being a prepaid phone in any way?

Provided AT&T works the same way that the former Cingular did, it is just
subsidy-locked to an AT&T SIM. I have personally used Gophone handsets on
postpaid accounts.

>In other words, is there anything to
>stop me from buying this phone, taking out the prepaid SIM, popping in
>my regular AT&T SIM from my old phone, and using the RAZR as a regular
>cell phone?

Provided that the phone was purchased from AT&T directly, or (if from a
store) scanned and paid for such that the IMEI# does not come up on a
"stolen" list. The former Cingular occasionally had been known to
blacklist mass-market prepaid phones that were not properly scanned and
inventoried.


>Any reason why I can't then pop the prepaid SIM into my
>old phone and use that one as the "Go Phone?"

That should work too.