Michelle
Mesquite,#2Consumer Comment
Tue, February 08, 2005
I am experiencing the same thing. We have three lines with AT&T (now Cingular). Two of the lines are now not working well and we JUST signed a 2 year contract with AT&T. Cingular says the solution (the ONLY solution) is to buy a new phone and that will force me to get a new plan (at a MUCH higher price). This is absolutely ridiculous. Before we renewed with AT&T we were going to switch to Cingular (this was in November of 04) and oddly enough at that time they could have used all three of our existing phones. Now they are telling me that the two phones that aren't working right are not "Cingular" phones. The consumer is really taking the brunt of this one. So companies can get out of their contracts but if we try to it's $175 per disconnect. I think that this crap and I somehow feel that we the consumer are not getting the whole story - something smells quite fish about this whole thing. Your best bet is going to be to hit e-bay or the cell phone companies online and buy directly from them.