Cingular to AT&T same phone?

[Brandon]

my dad had an older Motorola V60t phone that he has on the cingular network. he got a new one a few months back, so im keepin it.. i want to get the AT&T prepaied plan, but use that phone... is that possible?

theres somthing about the "sim card"

also, on the motorola phone when they turn on, theres like this exploding noise (from low to high) when u turn off (high to low pitch) how do i disable this

also, i want to a master reset on the phone but it needs a password.. my dad never set this up so he doesnt know it.. where can i get the password for it?

[EmuZombie Veteran]

If its locked into the Cingular network, it won't work on AT&T unless you unlock it. Weither it can be unlocked or not depends on the type of phone. I don't know much about Motorola phones (yes I'm a nokia fanboy, so kill me) so I can't help you with that.

Now you say "theres somthing about the "sim card" " Do you mean the phone has a sim card and a port? If it does then using it with AT&T will be simple. You will need to go into an AT&T Wireless store and buy a sim card however, they're about $25. (again, assuming it isn't locked) The ONLY prepaid plan you will be able to use this phone if its GSM on AT&T is the gophone plans ( http://www.attwireless.com/gophone ). Again, If this phone is a GSM phone. The "free2go" prepaid plans do not use GSM and that phone won't work with it.

And before someone tries to tell you Cingular bought AT&T Wireless, yes that is true. However at this point in time they are still 2 seperate competing companies.

[Brandon]

its not GSM.. its TDMA.. and i dont see a sim card for some reason under the battery like my dad's nokia, so how do i change it

[EmuZombie Veteran]

Well, in that case since it's TDMA it might work on their "free2go" plans but I'm not sure of what protocal they use. As for a sim card, if its not there then it just doesnt exist. The phone doesn't use a sim card.