I live in a region that AT&T recently took over from Cellular One. All my household phones were switched over rather easily months ago. We don’t talk much except to eachother, so the prepaid phones have been the cheapest route to go there. My work phone is a Blackberry 8300 and so far has not been converted to AT&T’s network. I noticed late last week that the roaming triangle started appearing on my phone even while at home and work which have always been prime locations for signal. The phone must have started searching for a non-roaming tower because I can’t run more than a day without a battery charge now. It is quite frustrating. I never had this problem in non-ATT areas before. I asked around a bit at work and everyone’s phone is doing the same thing now.
I understand that we’re supposed to be either getting new phones or new SIM cards for our existing phones. I’m wondering what the holdup is.
I’m really hoping for a new phone. It’s not that I don’t like my 8300, but so many advancements have happened since then. The GPS function is one of the most interesting, however I’ve also noticed that the newer models have a more responsive interface than mine. Of course there’s the storm/thunder too, but I’m not sure how I would like a keyboard that didn’t have a raised surface.
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A switchover always seems to create issues. My former company was using SW Bell/Cingular analog phones for communications when the changeover to digital took place, We started to lose connections, this had never happened before. We found out from an engineer that all but one of the analog transponders had been removed from most towers. So a tower that formerly could handle hundreds of calls, now could only handle tens – and we were located almost exactly between two towers in opposite directions which only made it worse. So it may be in your case that ATT has programmed the towers to only accept so many calls from former Cellular One customers. A new sim card should help, although ATT will probably encourage you to get entirely new handsets, at an entirely new contract price for an entirely new two year minimum length. Such is life.
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When buying Cellphone Batteries make sure that you are not getting those chinese fakes and knockoffs.;.:
Good point, but I have taken the risk on occasion and been glad about it. $6 for a knock off battery for my old RAZR gave it several more years of life and my daughter is actually still using it. Much better than $30 at retail.