What would you do?

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"Aaron Heck" <amheck@takethisout.attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:ao%Ud.135948$JF2.127745@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
> I'm currently an employee of AT&T (not wireless) and I get a ok discount
on
> service. I think it ammounts to about 15%, give or take, plus some free
> extra minutes on my plans. My latest phone, the Sony T637 got wet this
> weekend and doesn't work anymore. So I call up AT&T WS customer service
and
> I have 2 choices.
>
> 1. Stay with AT&T, keep my discount, but choose from a very limited
> selection of phones, either very cheap (Motorola V180/220 and Nokia 3200)
or
> very expensive (Nokia 6620, Blackberry 7100/7290).

That choice would be easy. Go with a Nokia 3200. You will love it. -Dave

Archived from groups: alt.cellular.cingular (More info?)

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:56:06 GMT, "Aaron Heck"
<amheck@takethisout.attglobal.net> wrote:

>I'm currently an employee of AT&T (not wireless) and I get a ok discount on
>service. I think it ammounts to about 15%, give or take, plus some free
>extra minutes on my plans. My latest phone, the Sony T637 got wet this
>weekend and doesn't work anymore. So I call up AT&T WS customer service and
>I have 2 choices.
>
>1. Stay with AT&T, keep my discount, but choose from a very limited
>selection of phones, either very cheap (Motorola V180/220 and Nokia 3200) or
>very expensive (Nokia 6620, Blackberry 7100/7290).
>
>or
>
>2. Switch to Cingular, get basically a new customer discount on the phone,
>which would be nice, but then I loose my monthly AT&T employee discount.
>But here I also have a pick of basically any phone available.
>
>Any real easy choice I'm not seeing? AT&T still does have the Blackberry
>6280 for $99, but I kinda like the color screens and possibly even another
>camera.

Option C: eBay the unlocked phone you want. My wife got a Nokia 6230 used
from eBay, spent another $5 & got it unlocked, and uses it with her
original ATTWS plan.


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