questions about 7710 support

[jmax577]

what up all. i am planning on purchasing a 7710 as soon as they are widely available but i have a dilema that i need imput on. i am a cingular subscriber and i am in the oklahoma city region. as some may know cingular was forced to sell of all the at and t holdings due to monoploy regulations (cingular and at and t would own too much spectrum in the wichita to oklahoma city area). cingular's network in this region basically ALL 850 and the at and t spectrum cingular had to sell of was all 1900. now my dilema is the 7710 is 1900/1800/900 and there does not seem to be any plans to offer the 850 version so the question is will i be able to get edge support? the phone will basically be on freakin extend the whole time so the obvious answer is no since i will be roaming on tmobile about 90 percent of the time but does anyone know of any loop holes?

[Jacob_Stevenson]

Could you not just get a AT&T sim card ? or change over to AT&T and keep you cingular phone number ?

[jolo]

what up all. i am planning on purchasing a 7710 as soon as they are widely available but i have a dilema that i need imput on. i am a cingular subscriber and i am in the oklahoma city region. as some may know cingular was forced to sell of all the at and t holdings due to monoploy regulations (cingular and at and t would own too much spectrum in the wichita to oklahoma city area). cingular's network in this region basically ALL 850 and the at and t spectrum cingular had to sell of was all 1900. now my dilema is the 7710 is 1900/1800/900 and there does not seem to be any plans to offer the 850 version so the question is will i be able to get edge support? the phone will basically be on freakin extend the whole time so the obvious answer is no since i will be roaming on tmobile about 90 percent of the time but does anyone know of any loop holes?
Move to T-Mobile?

[TheZodiac]

Moving to tmo might be the best best.. because taking advantage of their kick ass unlimited internet access via GPRS is a bargain. Even if it did have EDGE, (that you could use) it would be at best (where you live) limited to the area, I would think. YOu might wwant to look into that brother.

[jmax577]

no way i could give up edge and edge coverage here is great. i am an employee of cingular so i have the empoyee plan so no way i am trading up. i can't use a at and t sim because cingular made all employees trade up to the cingular 64k sims. it appears im hosed.

[Manburg]

Can't help u there bro ;) . I live in an environment where all those companies don't exist