Nokia 6682 / 6681
Nokia 6680 with Cingular. Anyone?
I got the 6680 from HK. Wondering who else has it with Cingular. Am worried about Cingy's plans to remove 900 and go with only 850; this phone only uses 900/1800/1900 and WCDMA 2100.
Nice phone, though. I got it last September in the flesh/off white color. Came with Opera 7.x, 128MB MMC card, PTT-ready, QuickOffice, RealPlayer for that nice VGA camera, AdobeReader and two-month trials for VirusGuard and some other stuff. No Text-to-Speech.
Just below $500.
It also has pre-set mMode for AT&T, and mMode Internet wireless configurations, so I didn't have to set it up ( I wonderif that was from my AT&T SIM or from the phone).
Anyone else?
Nice phone, though. I got it last September in the flesh/off white color. Came with Opera 7.x, 128MB MMC card, PTT-ready, QuickOffice, RealPlayer for that nice VGA camera, AdobeReader and two-month trials for VirusGuard and some other stuff. No Text-to-Speech.
Just below $500.
It also has pre-set mMode for AT&T, and mMode Internet wireless configurations, so I didn't have to set it up ( I wonderif that was from my AT&T SIM or from the phone).
Anyone else?
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Did you mean remove the 1900? If so, I doubt that since UMMTS will be over 1900, not 850.
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aprout,
UMTS to my understanding it actually WCDMA2000, does it run only on 1900? I've heard of some carriers in europe moving to 450. Also to my knowledge, when the merger happened, Cingular sold it's 1900 towers to T-mobile, that was the big push for operation independence, please enlighten me on the return to 1900.....thanks...
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UMTS to my understanding it actually WCDMA2000, does it run only on 1900? I've heard of some carriers in europe moving to 450. Also to my knowledge, when the merger happened, Cingular sold it's 1900 towers to T-mobile, that was the big push for operation independence, please enlighten me on the return to 1900.....thanks...
vpu2....OUT!!!!
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No, Cingular did not sell any of it's 1900 towers to anyone.
There were markets where we owned more that we are allowed after the merger, and in those markets we did sell some spectrum.
In Detroit for instance, we had to sell 10mHz and it was sold to Metro PCS who should be offering service sometime in 06 or 07.
A few yrs back we did a spectrum swap with TMO and that is how we launched the NYC market. If memory serves me correctly, it was the same amount, 10mHz.
I've only read a little about 450. I don't think it will be used state-side.
Yes, UMTS is WCDMA, and to my understanding, runs on 1900.
There were markets where we owned more that we are allowed after the merger, and in those markets we did sell some spectrum.
In Detroit for instance, we had to sell 10mHz and it was sold to Metro PCS who should be offering service sometime in 06 or 07.
A few yrs back we did a spectrum swap with TMO and that is how we launched the NYC market. If memory serves me correctly, it was the same amount, 10mHz.
I've only read a little about 450. I don't think it will be used state-side.
Yes, UMTS is WCDMA, and to my understanding, runs on 1900.
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aprout,
Thanks for that link, very informative. I'm still questioning the 1900 tower cell issue. Our trainers were very clear (or spitting out total garbare), that the 1900 towers & service were being phased out as the towers (at least in the west market) were sold to T-mobile. Thus the birth of project independence, which is designed to get affordable 850 handsets into peoples hands who might not otherwise make the switch. We were also told that we were now "leasing" time off of those towers, which is costing Cingular a bundle. I also notice in the article, that UMTS will run on both 850 & 1900, which presents another question I'll have to sort out. The 450 I mentioned, I don't believe will be used in the U.S., if I remember correctly, t...
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Thanks for that link, very informative. I'm still questioning the 1900 tower cell issue. Our trainers were very clear (or spitting out total garbare), that the 1900 towers & service were being phased out as the towers (at least in the west market) were sold to T-mobile. Thus the birth of project independence, which is designed to get affordable 850 handsets into peoples hands who might not otherwise make the switch. We were also told that we were now "leasing" time off of those towers, which is costing Cingular a bundle. I also notice in the article, that UMTS will run on both 850 & 1900, which presents another question I'll have to sort out. The 450 I mentioned, I don't believe will be used in the U.S., if I remember correctly, t...
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why would cingular sell the towers if they then had to lease time off of them...what business does that make?
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We were told that the push was to get everyone off of the 1900 towers, because cingular HAS for a while been converting to 850, if you look at the phones that were sold a couple years ago, most them were like the european market phones (900/1800/1900), I live in the west region, and it is my belief that they were using the 1900 as a primary, also know as pcs, and 900 as a secondary. Then they started selling phones banded 850/1800/1900, notice the only thing that changed, was the lower band. I'm told that lower frequency works more efficiently, than the higher ones. That is why the european countries are toying with 450.
I attended a training session about a month ago that covered this subject, and they were stating cingular was not build...
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I attended a training session about a month ago that covered this subject, and they were stating cingular was not build...
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