Cingular Charges Postpaid, Rewards Prepaid TDMA Customers
Cingular beginning next month will insert an administrative charge of $5 per month for customers who have not migrated to Cingular’s GSM network. The fee is to encourage migration, and reduce the remaining TDMA customer base. In internal memos obtained by PCS Intel, Cingular will attempt to leverage this charge in order to push forward […]
Starr’s ROCKITtalk Rocks Customers
Starr Wireless has had a very checkered past. From starting as being the only carrier with an online customer service page that contained the actual social security numbers of their customers (back when they were a Sprint MVNO) to their latest reincarnation of ROCKITtalk. ROCKITtalk was initially a TDMA/GSM MVNO using AT&T/Cingular wireless and Starr’s […]
Cingular GoPhone Sales Halted By Federal Court
Update: Cingular has responded by saying that this will only affect new TDMA activations, something which they have already taken measures to limit by deploying only GSM phones in GoPhone form after key points in the merger with AT&T Wireless. Today, a federal court has ordered that Cingular halt all new sales and activations of […]
Cingular: Blue GAIT Shutdown
Many former AT&T Wireless customers are starting to receive letters in the mail that their GAIT service will be discontinued soon. These customers (who use phones that can access Analog, TDMA, and GSM/GPRS, as well as EDGE through a second phone) will lose access to Analog and TDMA, but will not be required to change […]
Cingular Turns Off CDPD
This week Cingular discontinued their last CDPD data network. This data network was one of the first in the nation, operating on the AT&T Wireless TDMA network. Many readers will probably recall such ancient phones as the Ericsson R289LX which used the network (under the PocketNet brand), and paved the way for deployments of more […]
Cingular Unifying, Raising Prepaid Prices
Cingular has announced that they are unifying their three prepaid service’s price-plans. Cingular KIC, Free2Go, and GoPhone (excluding former AT&T Wireless GoPhone accounts, which are not prepaid) will now conform to the following rates: $15 (expiring 30 days from replenishment) $25 (expiring 90 days from replenishment) $50 (expiring 90 days from replenishment) $75 (expiring 90 […]
Cracking The Qualcomm Easter Egg: Part 2
Same rules as the last part apply, generalizations will be made, engineer�s will have their toes stepped on, you are welcomed to nit pick in the forums. It has to be good to be Qualcomm today, sitting on the top of the CDMA world watching everyone knock on their door, converting to CDMA, and having […]
Cracking The Qualcomm Easter Egg: Part 1
How We Got to Where We Are This is a history lesson, it is not meant to break new information, but to give a quick crash course in acronyms that far too many readers do not understand. If you know what AMPS, CDMA, GSM, iDEN, TDMA, UMTS, HSDPA, and EV-DO are, feel free to skip […]