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Cingular Forced To Stop TDMA Prepaid Sales

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SmartAccessCCrep

Oct 18, 2005, 2:12 PM

Ouch!

Well what do u think Cingular is going to do now?
they probably will continue to sell phones and subscription services to people not from the ghetto 😳
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It's BCGI that's screwed. 🤣
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Well, they now have legal mandate to stop [some] TDMA service. I think they'll follow through.
Cingular won't be that affected (I admit some 400,000 customers is still a lot however), but I wonder what boost mobile and the other smaller carriers that use BCGI will do?

Cingular has wanted those TDMA holdouts to move to GSM for sometime now, ...
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gtb_ajt

Oct 21, 2005, 9:42 PM

WTF!!!!!!!

Ok what the heck is going on!! I work for stupid cingular and they don't even have the nerve to tell the employess that there taking away TDMA prepaid!!
But At least it will not affect the current official cingular cust, because they are on the GSM network, thank goddness for that!!
The article doesn't state when Pre-Paid sales on TDMA have to stop. I'm sure any reasonable judge would give some time for Cingular to change their system.
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longbordr52

Oct 18, 2005, 7:57 PM

uh oh, question:

I still have a KIC plan, bought right before they created the whole Gophone thing. Its GSM, not TDMA, so does this whole thing even affect me? If they stop my service, will they compensate with something else?
It seems you shouldn't be affected by this situation, atleast not directly. But I doubt cingular would raise the rates. If anything they may lower the rates to try and keep the customers. I'm glad I'm not going to be working for cingular when the 90...
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