GAIT phone on GSM-only plan?

It won't work.

I tried this a while back because I wanted to continue using my Nokia 6340i also.

As I understand it the 6340i somehow registers a ESN number in order to use the "non-GSM" towers that the pure GSM phones can not use.

When the Cingular systems checks this signal against your account and finds that it is purely GSM and not GAIT it does a very strange thing.....You can make calls and you can hear the other party, the catch is the other party can't hear you.

 

Uh, I used my 6340 (and later a 6340i) on a GSM-only plan for about a year with no problems.

 

My wife is on the GSM plan and she uses a 6340i phone, just one thing to remember, when the phone cant find a GSM signal, and reverts to TDMA, you will not be able to make or recieve calls, because the ESN is not in the system.

 

Like coalminer and faxmaster I could use a GSM only SIM in my 6340i (either from cingular or tmobile). That was last year, but since July this no longer works. It seems in my area, this can no longer be done and the phone doesn't operate at all with a GSM only chip.

I think Cingular has been making some changes in the system.

acworthbubba, I asked the same question to Cingular and got the same response.