Monday, July 31, 2006

Cingular to Charge $5 for Older, Non-GSM Phones

An AP newswire article by Bruce Myerson, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

About 4.7 million Cingular Wireless subscribers with older phones will have to pay $5 extra each month as the company tries to prod them to get new handsets so it can devote its entire network to one type of signal.

The new surcharge, unique among the major U.S. carriers, will be added to bills starting in September, the company told The Associated Press on Monday.

More here.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home