Where can you get new/newer unlocked cell phones that will work with old AT&T plans.?

Question

Cingular still supoprts old contracts of AT&T customers; however, if you need a new phone you have to change to a cingular contract, which in my case a comparable contract would cost us significantly more per month/year. We have been trying to find an unlocked phone to replace my current phone which is on its last leg. I can find used replacements from people switching away from their current AT&T plans, but those will eventually run into the same problem that I'm having with my current phone... therefore, I'm trying to find a new phone. Suggestions????

Answer 1

Does your phone use a SIM card? If so all you will need to do is buy an Unlocked GSM phone and put your SIM card into that phone (ebay is a good source of unlocked phones). However, if you're like me you probably have one of the older phones that don't use a SIM card. Those phones use AT&T's older TDMA network and I don't think there are any new phones made for TDMA since no one except Cingular supports that anymore (and from what I've been told support for TDMA will disappear in the future).

Answer 2

try ebay, any unlocked cingular phone will work, actually any unlocked phone period would work as long as it supports the 850 mhz and 1900 mhz band