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Posted by: efparri

Cingular has a Mobile to Mobile Lookup Tool which allows you to check up to five wireless numbers to see if mobile to mobile minutes apply.

Posted by: i49mobile

Great that the site exist. I checked a number that I ported to Verizon 45 days go and Cingular shows that the number is in Cingular Mobile to Mobile.

Posted by: Mango808

I plugged in a friends number that used to be an AT&T Wireless number, but had ported over to Verizon last year and it came back as still being included as M2M with Cingular.

Posted by: Barry ATL

You notice that Cingular's response talks about "national" but does not metion Chicago. Cingular, as with any carrier, does have some problem markets. I would think it would be better to own up to the problems and talk about what is in the works to fix it.

Posted by: gregsmith59

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Originally Posted by Barry ATL

You notice that Cingular's response talks about "national" but does not metion Chicago. Cingular, as with any carrier, does have some problem markets. I would think it would be better to own up to the problems and talk about what is in the works to fix it.

I think you wanted to reply to the Chicago thread.

But you're right and I recently posted the same concepts on that thread.

Posted by: gregsmith59

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Originally Posted by i49mobile

Great that the site exist. I checked a number that I ported to Verizon 45 days go and Cingular shows that the number is in Cingular Mobile to Mobile.

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Originally Posted by Mango808

I plugged in a friends number that used to be an AT&T Wireless number, but had ported over to Verizon last year and it came back as still being included as M2M with Cingular.

The question is: does Cingular rate calls to these numbers as M2M?

This is one time people could profit from their lame-o systems, assuming billing uses the same database.

Posted by: SHoTTa35

yes they do, my friend that was Cingular and is now Sprint, i still get to talk to her for free even tho she can't. She has free incoming tho so i call her for free and she gets my calls for free :-D

Posted by: ndml

I just checked a number of a friend who ported out of Cingular to Alltel 2 years ago and it says he is on-network. However, on my bill, it never rates calls to or from him as mobile to mobile. Pretty sorry system they use. Its giving people false information! However, the billing system seems to get it right every month!

Posted by: Mango808

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Originally Posted by gregsmith59

The question is: does Cingular rate calls to these numbers as M2M?

This is one time people could profit from their lame-o systems, assuming billing uses the same database.

I haven't called the ported number since and I don't have any of my bills going back that far to see if it was still M2M after the port.

Posted by: i0wnj00

This thing failed my test...
I plugged in number for a friend who was an AT&T Wireless customer and it said "Yes you can enjoy free calls to the following number(s)", plug in the same number at https://www.wirelessamberalerts.org/ and I get "Carrier: T-Mobile USA, Inc."

WR

NG!

Good ole Cingular at work again...

Posted by: plane

this site is not without flaws but I have found it pretty good, and I use it a lot since we have 3 carriers and use the one to connect m2m as often as possible.

https://www.wirelessamberalerts.org/index.jsp

Posted by: efparri

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Originally Posted by i0wnj00

This thing failed my test...
I plugged in number for a friend who was an AT&T Wireless customer and it said "Yes you can enjoy free calls to the following number(s)", plug in the same number at https://www.wirelessamberalerts.org/ and I get "Carrier: T-Mobile USA, Inc."

WR

NG!

Good ole Cingular at work again...

Which one is wrong?

Posted by: i0wnj00

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Originally Posted by efparri

Which one is wrong?

The Cingular tool.

Posted by: Barry ATL

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Originally Posted by gregsmith59

I think you wanted to reply to the Chicago thread.

But you're right and I recently posted the same concepts on that thread.

GEEZE..... HOW DID I DO THAT???? Okay... so I have lost my mind. Oh well, sorry about posting on the wrong thread.

Posted by: gregsmith59

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Originally Posted by efparri

Which one is wrong?

Is that a trick question???

Posted by: CrunchDude

This is a really cool tool! Cingular all the way, baby!!!

Posted by: efparri

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Originally Posted by gregsmith59

Is that a trick question???

The poster wrote "Wrong" after the Amber Alert answer which apparently gave the correct answer. What you type is not necessarily what you intended to convey. If he had put the Amber Alert answer first, there would be no ambiguity when he wrote "Wrong" after the Cingular results. Or if he had said "used to be an At&T Wireless customer," there would be no doubt. His message gave the impression that the person still was an AT&T Wireless customer.

Posted by: The WB

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Originally Posted by Mango808

I plugged in a friends number that used to be an AT&T Wireless number, but had ported over to Verizon last year and it came back as still being included as M2M with Cingular.

Is this how Cingular gets 55M subscribers??????

Posted by: walkguru

Wirelessly posted (Walkguru's: Nokia6682/2.0 (3.01.1) SymbianOS/8.0 Series60/2.6 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 UP.Link/6.3.0.0.0)

Still a great idea.

Posted by: The WB

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Originally Posted by walkguru

Still a great idea.

I completely agree!

Posted by: MikeTheCat

I just did three numbers with the same beginning interchange as a Cingular number, but were with other companies, and they came up as being elligible.
Heh.

Posted by: co678

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I just checked a number of a friend who ported out of Cingular to Alltel 2 years ago and it says he is on-network. However, on my bill, it never rates calls to or from him as mobile to mobile. Pretty sorry system they use. Its giving people false information! However, the billing system seems to get it right every month!

My friend ported to VZ about 3 years ago and Cingular says its M2M on my bill still it works for me :P

Posted by: Coke

The Cingular website sucks and does not work. Use https://www.wirelessamberalerts.org/index.jsp instead

Posted by: roamer1

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Originally Posted by i0wnj00

NG!

Good ole Cingular at work again...

I checked four numbers just now:

a) a number of a friend who has a Cingular-assigned number and has Cingular right now
b) a number of a friend who has ported from SPCS to VZW to Cingular (he ported to Cingular several months ago)
c) a number of a friend who ported from Cingular to T-Mobile several months ago
d) my number ported from VZW to T-Mobile that has never touched Cingular

a), b), and c) show up as eligible for M2M; d) naturally doesn't.

It looks like it is correctly reflecting ports in but not ports out.

-SC

Posted by: skippinjack

That's pretty cool that they have this now, it's kind of like Verizon's IN lookup tool.

Posted by: DRC72

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Originally Posted by efparri

Cingular has a Mobile to Mobile Lookup Tool which allows you to check up to five wireless numbers to see if mobile to mobile minutes apply.

That is a nice tool. There have been times that I wanted to verify a few numbers, to see if they where indeed Cingular numbers.

Posted by: The WB

Glad addition to the users to have - the followed in VZW footsteps, since VZW went public with this feature about 3 months ago.

Now coverage maps . . . .

Posted by: rzande1

I have the cingular prepaid service on one of my phones and the tool is funny. It shows one of my friends who is on tmobile as in. When i make a call it also bills it as the unlimited m2m lol. Way to go cingular. Thank you for the free calls lol.

Posted by: RyanM

stop discussing that here or they might look into it :P

Posted by: jeffro01

something has to be wrong with that tool..... because my 2 numbers which were briefly ported into then back out of cingular over 1 yr ago are showing free M2M for other cingular users.

Jeff

Posted by: DRC72

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Originally Posted by jeffro01

something has to be wrong with that tool..... because my 2 numbers which were briefly ported into then back out of cingular over 1 yr ago are showing free M2M for other cingular users.

Jeff

Cingular's M2M database is not very up to date. There was one time when I called a couple of landline numbers and they where rated as M2M.

Posted by: walkguru

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Originally Posted by drc72

Cingular's M2M database is not very up to date. There was one time when I called a couple of landline numbers and they where rated as M2M.

your not complaining are you.

Posted by: DRC72

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Originally Posted by walkguru

your not complaining are you.

No complaints here.

Posted by: scottjhl

This is pretty cool...kinda interesting, though.

Posted by: The WB

As long as the computer errors in our favor . . . .

Posted by: efparri

Cingular has temporarily removed the link to its tool from the Announcements Section of its Forums. One of the moderators promised that Cingular will rework the tool to iron out the flaws. Your bookmarks may still go to the site but be advised that it is a work in progress and is not in its "Ready for Primetime" form.

Posted by: bobolito

I'm surprised I couldn't find this info here before, but Cingular has launched an M2M lookup tool similar to Verizon's so you can enter their number to see if you can talk to them for free:

http://onlinestorez.cingular.com/ce...ookup/index.jsp

Posted by: SHoTTa35

you're a lil late as i'm sure i've seen it before. I used it last night actually when i got some new digits

I wish it could tell which one they are on tho. Oh well, make it sticky

Posted by: macizcool

Sorry, Bobolito... That's been around for a while

Posted by: i0wnj00

Yeah, it was...but it was buried amongst all the posts about people pointing out that it isn't accurate.

Posted by: CaptShadow

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Originally Posted by macizcool

Sorry, Bobolito... That's been around for a while

NooBs

We just can't seem to get them trained in the art of "search".

We'll let you make it up to us bobo. Hack into Cingular and add all the other carriers numbers.

Posted by: paul34

Well hey this is the first time I'm seeing this... so maybe there was some use after all

Posted by: bobolito

I did search but apparently, either the search sucks or whoever posted it didn't use the most logical words "lookup tool" or "search tool" in the title. If anyone can find that thread, please post the link.

Posted by: CaptShadow

OK, we'll let you slide just this once [takes cursor off the temp ban button].

Posted by: modred

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Originally Posted by bobolito

I did search but apparently, either the search sucks or whoever posted it didn't use the most logical words "lookup tool" or "search tool" in the title. If anyone can find that thread, please post the link.

I did a search of this forum on the word "lookup" and found...

http://www.howardforums.com/showthr...ighlight=lookup

...which was posted on May 13th of this year. The subject of the thread is "Cingular Mobile to Mobile Lookup Tool."

Posted by: walkguru

ah ha, i thought i had seen that before.

Posted by: ALCingularUser

I like to use the Wireless AMBER Alerts site to check numbers. Not all carriers are listed, but many are.

https://www.wirelessamberalerts.org/index.jsp

Posted by: ThePhantom

Ah, the Cinglebar tool sucks dognuts -- as it appears to be less than foolproof. I wish they'd bring back the ATTWS LNP utility, which would list the OCN of any given number. Sprint/Nextel has a similar facility, and appears to do lookups in real-time:

Link...

Select the number(s) to display the textual OCN name...

Posted by: Telegraph

and THIS is a perfect example as to why people are idiots when they reply "just use the search feature" for any type of general question. HELP people instead of just calling them "noobs"

Posted by: CPTek

Good post. Regardless of what is above my post. I visit here daily, but didn't know about this.

This is going to be bookmarked. ; )

Posted by: CaptShadow

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Originally Posted by Telegraph

and THIS is a perfect example as to why people are idiots when they reply "just use the search feature" for any type of general question. HELP people instead of just calling them "noobs"

I'm not sure who this is directed towards, but I hope you can see that we were just having a little fun at bobo's expense.
Would a few more

hehe haha's make it more obvious?

Posted by: CA

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Originally Posted by modred

OUCH

That's got to hurt.

Posted by: macizcool

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Originally Posted by Sonix

OUCH

That's got to hurt.

Bobolito is never allowed to make mistakes.......

Posted by: CA

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Originally Posted by macizcool

Bobolito is never allowed to make mistakes.......

I gave up on that search tool months ago. I guess I'm spoiled with Google.

Posted by: jbzcar

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Originally Posted by bobolito

You've just now discovered that search sucks?

Posted by: i0wnj00

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Originally Posted by modred

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Originally Posted by jbzcar

You've just now discovered that search sucks?

Bobo just got pwnd...twice.
Time for a few b7.

Posted by: plane

I am just glad to have all these m2m resources listed in one place, where I can come back and find them. Never hurts to relist them. thanks

Posted by: efparri

I purchased five unused Cingular SIM cards from eBay. They had area code 415 numbers assigned. I checked them with Wireless Amber Alert and came up with Cingular. When I checked them with Cingular's M2M tool, the numbers were not found. CIngular must check for active original Cingular numbers but may not be accurate with numbers transferred from another carrier.

Posted by: bobolito

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Originally Posted by jbzcar

You've just now discovered that search sucks?

You bet! Even for mods it sucks

Posted by: azura

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Originally Posted by ALCingularUser

I like to use the Wireless AMBER Alerts site to check numbers. Not all carriers are listed, but many are.

https://www.wirelessamberalerts.org/index.jsp

This site is one of the most helpful to me, my number ported from Sprint shows up correctly as a Cingular number.

Posted by: WillM

I always thought it would be cool if your phone could display an icon letting you know that the party you are calling is in the carrier's network. I'm not sure how hard that would be to do but it's better than having to check some website.

Posted by: Dm112084

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Originally Posted by efparri

I purchased five unused Cingular SIM cards from eBay. They had area code 415 numbers assigned. I checked them with Wireless Amber Alert and came up with Cingular. When I checked them with Cingular's M2M tool, the numbers were not found. CIngular must check for active original Cingular numbers but may not be accurate with numbers transferred from another carrier.

2 of the numbers on my family plan were ported from T-mobile, the other line was ported from Verizon, and all 3 are identified correctly as being free M2M.

Posted by: bobolito

Quote:

Originally Posted by i0wnj00

Bobo just got pwnd...twice.
Time for a few b7.

Don't forget I was the first to discover and post the WirelessAmberAlerts link here:

https://www.wirelessamberalerts.org/index.jsp

Posted by: NE_Ohio

yes you were bobo.

Posted by: i0wnj00

Damn...but you still pwnd. (just once)

Posted by: MiKESTERR

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Originally Posted by WillM

I always thought it would be cool if your phone could display an icon letting you know that the party you are calling is in the carrier's network. I'm not sure how hard that would be to do but it's better than having to check some website.

on my v3 razr, i find out which of my friends have cingular and when editting the number, instead of putting it into the general section, i put all the cingular subscribers in VIPs. so whenever i dont feel like wasting my minutes, in the phonebook, i go to menu and category, select ViPs, and i have a whole list of people i can talk to for free

Posted by: MrDerby

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Originally Posted by MiKESTERR

NICE.. I got a HUGE laugh out of this...

Posted by: Binx75075

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Originally Posted by efparri

Cingular has a Mobile to Mobile Lookup Tool which allows you to check up to five wireless numbers to see if mobile to mobile minutes apply.

This page is no longer valid.

Posted by: andie207

I'm looking for a backdoor number (cingular) for the 815 area code (768-number) Can anyone help?

Thanks!

Posted by: CA

Quote:

Originally Posted by andie207

I'm looking for a backdoor number (cingular) for the 815 area code (768-number) Can anyone help?

Thanks!

Have at it!

Quote:

http://www.gethuman.com/us/

Quote:

To find the toll-free phone number for any US-based company, try calling 1-800-555-1212 or search Google for company name plus "phone numbers". Or maybe even searching for the company name and "president office" or "investor relations".

Posted by: Aurora

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Originally Posted by Binx75075

This page is no longer valid.

Yep, I just tried to use this tool and discovered it was MIA...anyone have an updated link?

Posted by: ashayscript

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Originally Posted by Aurora

Yep, I just tried to use this tool and discovered it was MIA...anyone have an updated link?

Cingular Mobile to Mobile Lookup

Enjoy

Posted by: wpbear

New Link old link Dead

M2M Lookup Tool

Posted by: rafster

I don't know if this has been mentioned (as I'm waaaaaay too lazy to read this whole thread), but... it would be really cool to have a Java (or something) app that uses Medianet or something to find M2M numbers straight from your phone...

Rafster