Cingular Surcharge Targets Older Phones: ; 4.7 Million Customers to Be Charged $5 a Month As Company Tries to Get Them to Buy New Handsets

Charleston Daily Mail › August 02, 2006

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NEW YORK - 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.

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Cingular Surcharge Targets Older Phones: ; 4.7 Million Customers to Be Charged $5 a Month As Company Tries to Get Them to Buy New Handsets

Cingular, jointly owned by prospective merger partners AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp., reported earlier this month that roughly 92 percent of its 57.3 million customers...

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