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I'm in the Us. Wondering if my phone is blacklisted. I bought it on ebay but It only had one owner and he also bought it from a dealer on ebay. Its basically a brand new phone and its past seems clear but why would my tmobile sim work and not my cingular? When I first got the phone it keep resetting itself for matinence. Then I placed the tmobile sim in it and went into the control panel and took off the sim lock which was on. Again I put the cingular sim in and was able to get past the intial screen but I can not make calls or internet, etc. Could this phone be black listed by cingular and not tmobile. What a mess!
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Posted: 2004-04-16 15:46:23
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ebay is a bad mistake with electronics.
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Posted: 2004-04-16 16:09:21
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I am unaware of any Blacklisting in the US... but maybe I just haven't been informed of this.
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Posted: 2004-04-16 16:31:56
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If blacklisting is already in effect here in Canada, then it definately is in effect in the US. (provider dependant) seeing as we are a step behind always in this stuff.
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Posted: 2004-04-18 00:43:27
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Hmmm, I'm from England, and haven't heard of any blacklisting before this. Are u sure the two networks don't simply run on different frequencies, and the phone that u bought has been locked to certain network providers? That's what happens here; a pxxx phone purchased from Orange will be locked, disabling it from taking other network simcards. Don't have a clue with the states tho.....
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Posted: 2004-04-18 12:53:12
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Isn't Cingular on 850 vs 900 Mz for T-mobile?
Kiros
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Posted: 2004-04-18 23:09:45
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I think you do get blacklisting now in the UK. I've got a T68i which won't work on Orange (says 'invalid mobile'), but works fine on Vodafone and other networks, and if any phone is lost or stolen now the phone is disabled via the IMEI number - so that if you put a sim into the phone from any network and power it up, it will say something like 'invalid mobile' or 'sim card registration failed' and not get a signal. And as changing IMEI numbers is hard to do - and illegal here anyway - it reduces that phone's use to spare parts only.
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Posted: 2004-04-18 23:19:07
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rdnymllnsktr Posts: > 500
The guy's in the US. T-Mobile uses 1900 in the US, and Cingular uses 850 (and I'm not sure about 1900). You won't be able to access the 850 with the P900, as it only works on the 900, 1800, 1900 bands.
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Posted: 2004-04-18 23:29:32
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Thats the problem. My cingular store told me that they only run off the 850 frequency in my area. However I put in an AT&T sim and it works fine.When Cingular takes over AT&t will they use AT&t's 1900 frequency?
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Posted: 2004-04-18 23:33:22
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