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Old 2007-01-09, 05:40 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by cd34 View Post
Also, Cingular is a little like AT&T and refuses to turn on certain features on their phones -- even though the phones can support it. My older nokia had an IRDA modem -- my laptop could connect to it, it could dial the number, but, as soon as it realized it was a data call, the phone would immediately disconnect. I was willing to pay for the airtime and it took about 3 weeks for Cingular to finally admit that while the phone was capable, and their network was capable, they turned off that feature and weren't going to enable it.
Didn't Cingular and At&T merge their cellphone services a year or so ago? They did something because the day they did, all of a sudden my Cingular phone had reception where it never did before.
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