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Bay Area: 310-410 is starting to appear

Discussion in 'AT&T Wireless Forum' started by dmapr, Jan 21, 2008.

  1. dmapr

    dmapr Silver Senior Member
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    I noticed today that the MNC was finally switched from 380 to 410 around here.
     
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    Maybe this has to do with the fact that they want the whole AT&T network to be 310-410 especially with the purchase of Dobson.
     
    #2 cellular_freak, Jan 21, 2008
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    Not really AT&T just want 410 everywhere and 380 was the old Blue ATTWS MNC. AT&T wants to use the Cingular 410 MNC everywhere to include Dobsons 560 and 680(NPI) Which still shows as NPI when ATT and TMobile roam on the Michigan Dobson network because ATT and TMobile didnt adjust this on their SIM cards.
     
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    how does one view this kind of info, what all are you talking about, im lost.
     
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    Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.1; U; en-us) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413 es70)

    Some Motorolas have the ability to view the Mobile Network Code by manually selecting the network (may require SEEM edit if you don't have the option).
     
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    and what do these numbers mean and whats the advantage ?
     
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    Well, right, but I'm just saying that it's just kinda odd that they changed it right around the time that they've acquired Dobson and are starting to integrate their network. It just appears that they want a unified network, one that doesn't have seperate MNCs. I do wonder though, since they've begun to do this over there, when they will begin to turn Dobson's MNCs into 410 especially around here in Michigan.
     
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    It's the ID of the network. Originally the advantage was that in the areas where there were both Cingular & AT&T Wireless towers unifying the ID allowed for seamless transition from one cell to another where previously a call would be dropped. In CA where all Cingular towers went to T-Mobile and AT&T Wireless towers went to Cingular there's really no advantage — but they still wanted to unify this.
     
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    Seems like they took a long time to get this going in CA, I guess building more towers was a bigger priority which makes sense, only don't know how they are doing on that out there.
     
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    Your right it should have been done 3 years ago. Maybe they had some special reason, dont know.

    The rebranding process is crazy if you ask me.

    I was at a tower with the telephone side of ATT and the guy pulled up in a SBC truck wearing an Ameritech Jacket and a ATT tshirt? I was waiting for him to bust out some Bell stuff.

    I have to see if I can find it again before they rip it out. But I found a pay phone that has a combination of a couple of the Names.
     
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    Neither do I — they made a big fuss over building two extra cells about two years ago and I haven't seen them lift a finger since — at least not in Bay Area. Now that the T-Mobile roaming is no more, they're firmly behind VZW in terms of real-world coverage (coverage maps nonwithstanding).
     
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    when is the deal with T-Mobile and AT&T in California supposed to roll out so that everyone can get their own towers on the right MNC.......
     
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    This was supposed to have been done already. Why it's taken so long is anyone's guess.
     
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    For the most part it has — here in Bay Area there's very little T-Mobile roaming left.
     
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