Originally Posted by quantumrand

So, I have a European HTC Hero, which only works on AT&T EDGE. Well, the other day, I received this text message:



Now, at first, I thought this might be a good thing. Maybe I could upgrade to a 3G Android phone for free without even upping my contract, but I certainly wasn't optimistic (this is AT&T we're talking about).

So I visit my friendly neighborhood AT&T store and they tell me I can choose from any of their Feature or Messaging phones...Yeah, they want me to trade in my $500 Smartphone for some crappy $25 feature phone. It's either that, shell out $500 for one of their crappy Androids, or leave AT&T. Well, I guess I'm leaving AT&T.

According to the sales rep (who I don't put much stock in btw), AT&T is "changing the frequencies of their EDGE towers." I guess turning them into 3G towers. The whole story didn't make a whole lot of sense to be honest. Sounds to me like they're planning on making their whole network 3G only, or they're shifting all data (and digital voice) from their EDGE network to the 3G network due to the added strain of data phones on EDGE.