AT&T has decided to move on from some of their customer's cell phones. Apparently, the phones listed below do not work well with AT&T's GSM 850 coverage and rather than fix the problem, they are just moving on. If you own one of the cellphones listed below and live in the New York metropolitan area, Northern New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Las Vegas, or Seattle, there’s a good chance that AT&T doesn’t want you to use it much longer.
Motorola MPx200
Nokia 3650
Nokia 8390
Nokia N-Gage
RIM Blackberry 7210
Siemens SX56 (Pocket PC Phone)
Sony Ericsson T68
Sony Ericsson T68i
Nokia 3100
Nokia 3200
Siemens C56
Sony Ericsson T226
Engadget has a very detailed article about just what is going on over there at AT&T but the short of it is the following. If you use one of these phones, you will continue to have poor reception and AT&T is not going to fix the problem.
Here are the phones:
AT&T does have a replacement program but the phones they are replacing with are not all that hot. They are as follows:
For all the details about how this happened click the read more link below. It's a hairy situation that was totally avoidable, but AT&T's reputation for poor coverage is going to continue.