Re: Cingular SIM card upgrade, stop!

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From: Bob Fry
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:36

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>>>>> "tom" == tom glaab <tomglaab@gmail.com> writes:

    tom> Bob Fry wrote:
    >> No--they Cingular store guy spent a lot of time on the phone
    >> with tech support, and they concluded the new SIM card damaged
    >> the phone so it was demanding an unlock password that it would
    >> never accept.

    tom> Interesting... I wonder if you were in an older market with
    tom> an original SIM and phone that were not on the USA-410
    tom> network. 

My original SIM card was Pacific Bell, about 6 years old, and that's
probably why they sent the new card.  But they clearly never bothered
to check what phone I had now, and if it would work with the new card.

Other screwups in the SIM card trade:

- they gave instructions in their letter on how to replace the SIM
card and activate the new one by calling a number, but never warned
about copying all your SIM-stored phone numbers to the phone so as not
to lose them.

- they haven't sent a new SIM card for my wife's phone which is
identical to mine (old SIM card).  Not that we would use it now
anyway.

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