[pct-l] Foreign Hiker - 2 questions

[Stephanie Best]

I'm not really sure what all this is about with having to switch out AT&T phones.  My family has three AT&T phones (family plan) and have not had to make ANY changes...phones or otherwise.  Sounds like someone is misinformed??



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Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 14:57:06 +0000
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Subject: Re: [pct-l] Foreign Hiker - 2 questions and SPOT Connect
To: "Yoshihiro Murakami" <completewalker at gmail.com>,    "Eric Martinot"
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Cc: Pacific crest trail PCT Listserve <pct-l at backcountry.net>
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I didn't address the major point in this post :)

Which is that At &T merged with Sprint and no longer runs on GSM but on CDMA.
People in the US had to trade in their phones for CDMA ones and now are on Sprint/AT &T.

Any GSM phone will work on a GSM network, but NOT any CDMA phone will work on a CDMA network.

So those people could take their GSM at &T phone to any other gsm provider and the phone would work fine.

That's how companies in the USA were able to offer 2 year contracts and charge nothing for actual phones but upcharge on costs of service.

If you have an at &t phone and need to use it in the USA you would have to find another carrier or buy a new phone... It won't work here anymore due to the merger.


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