"DhiaDuit" wrote in message
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Don't ask me, I don't know. Looka here ilk, back around 1996 1997 I bought
an Ericsson cell phone at the AT@T retail store. I was on the AT@T cell
phone plan for two years, about $18.00 each month of those two years. I
wonder if I ever decide to get on a cell phone plan again, can I use my old
Ericsson cell phone? The old battery won't take a charge anymore but I have
a cell phone battery case that is made for that particular cell phone, I
bought it at Walmart wayyy back then, it snaps on to the cell phone, just
like the original battery that came with the cell phone, it uses AAA
batteries, I have Eveready rechargable batteries and Eveready battery
recharger.


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No, you won't be able to use that phone. The bands and modulation types are
no longer supported. Your Ericsson would be an analog phone. AFAIK, there
are no longer any analog cell towers left.

From the Washington Post, Feb. 2008:


Most Analog Cellular to Fade Away Next Week

February 15, 2008


You may think of sunsets as something nice to look at, but if you have an
older cell phone or a home alarm system, there's one coming up on Monday
that may not be so pretty.

That day, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will let mobile
operators shut down their analog networks. It's called the "analog sunset"
because those AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System) networks, which were first
deployed in the 1980s and brought cellular service to millions of Americans,
will finally disappear behind the digital networks that serve almost all
mobile phones in use today.

The biggest U.S. mobile operators, AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless, will
close down their analog networks that day. At the same time, AT&T will turn
off its first digital network, which uses TDMA (Time-Division Multiple
Access) technology. (Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA don't have analog
networks.) Calls to some small, rural mobile operators indicated that most
of them plan to shut down AMPS, too.