> Effective with their September invoice, Cingular customers will start
>> receiving a monthly network service charge of $4.99 for each TDMA or
>> Analog line of service on their account.
> Any idea if this applies to those of us with GAIT phones that do GSM
> as well as TDMA, and analog?
The issue is that the new digital protocols use less than 1/50 of the radio bandwidth of a cell tower. So what they really want is for all the older analog phones to be tossed in the trash. But that would upset some folks. So this is a nudge for them to switch to s new phone. And I'm sure they'll "make a deal" if it helps you to switch.
GSM is a digital technology.