all cingular towers not available for AT&T blue customer

I am a blue AT&T customer

Symtoms:
My v551 - went to Emergency call only
when I turned the phone off , took the sim out, and put it back together.
The phone keeps saying registering/searching for network and then gives
Emergency only.

Other co-workers with orange not having any issues

Cingular Tech response: they are having problems with some cingular towers,
so preference is given to the orange-cingular customers, the former AT&T
customers cannot connect.
I asked her that if I search for the network, I do find cingular, but how
come I cannot connect ? she repeated the above.

As to what I should do. She told me to try my phone on every 1/2 hour. If
it doesn't work for 24 hours, to call them back.

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Can Cingular refuse service to former AT&T customers if some of their towers
are down ?
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Ask Cingular to switch your account to the orange network. It's pretty
lame that the rep didn't suggest that.

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Peter Headland

RR <rafiq@rahim.us> wrote:
> I am a blue AT&T customer

I don't know what color I am ;-)
I used to have an AT&T non-GSM account, and "converted" to a Cingular plan
and a Cingular GSM phone. What color does that make me?

> Symtoms:
> My v551 - went to Emergency call only
> when I turned the phone off , took the sim out, and put it back together.
> The phone keeps saying registering/searching for network and then gives
> Emergency only.

Starting sometime between Friday afternoon and Monday afternoon, I lost my
connection. I have no signal bars, no "Cingular" text on the screen. If I
try to make a call, it just fails, it does not give any other message.

I have a v551 and a v220 doing the same thing. Cingular Service says there
isn't supposed to be any coverage at all where I live, but said nothing
should have changed recently. I drove about 10 miles north, and I got
signal. I even went to the Cingular "my account" page on the v551 browser,
which I assume wouldn't work if I was roaming.

> As to what I should do. She told me to try my phone on every 1/2 hour. If
> it doesn't work for 24 hours, to call them back.

Where are they supposedly having trouble? I have a Cingular network ticket
number, and someone is supposed to call me within 48 hours.

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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5

dold@63.usenet.us.com wrote:

> Where are they supposedly having trouble? I have a Cingular network ticket
> number, and someone is supposed to call me within 48 hours.

I just got a report that "no one's Cingular" is working from a local store.
Nice to know that Cingular network support is right on top of the
situation.

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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5

At 27 Dec 2006 00:43:15 +0000 dold@63.usenet.us.com wrote:

> I don't know what color I am ;-)
> I used to have an AT&T non-GSM account, and "converted" to a Cingular
> plan
> and a Cingular GSM phone. What color does that make me?


Considering the coverage area you lost in the transition, probably either
red with anger or green with envy! ;-)

Seriously, however, you're orange. A "blue" customer uses an AT&T SIM on
a grandfathered legacy AT&T plan.

I ended up switching to Orange (Cingular)

What I lost
1. free roaming in Canada and Mexico (and calling to from US) (for 9.99)
2. Free nights and weekends.

What I gained.
1. Much better reception at home previously my v551, T637, V60 worked only
in parts of my home.




"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in message
news:en1d8j$hdu$5@aioe.org...
> At 27 Dec 2006 00:43:15 +0000 dold@63.usenet.us.com wrote:
>
>> I don't know what color I am ;-)
>> I used to have an AT&T non-GSM account, and "converted" to a Cingular
>> plan
>> and a Cingular GSM phone. What color does that make me?
>
>
> Considering the coverage area you lost in the transition, probably either
> red with anger or green with envy! ;-)
>
> Seriously, however, you're orange. A "blue" customer uses an AT&T SIM on
> a grandfathered legacy AT&T plan.
>
>