Pin problems moving from Cingular to T-mobile

cerez

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I have seen this discussed in the past but still could not get a clear picture.

My problem is this:

I have a Nokia E61 which I used to sign up with Cingular. I was able to create an account on Blackberry.net and add my email addresses from Yahoo etc to start receiving messages on my Nokia E61.

However I decided Cingular was not for me and cancelled a couple of days ago and signed up with T-Mobile instead.

Thats when my problems began.

1) When I go to the T-mobile website to register myself it asks what device I have, and it does not have Nokia E61 naturally, so I just pick some other phone like a Blackberry. Then I click on the link that says Set up you Blackberry Internet Service, when I click the link, it says


We apologize, there was an error trying to access the service. Please click here to try again.

I noticed in the URL it has something called device type and my username its passing to the website, so I am wondering whether that has anything to do with why I get this message rather than showing me the blackberry website where I can register this blackberry.

Then I went to my phone and looked under services and the web browser which had a link which said Set up Blackberry (this was the one placed on my phone automatically when I signed up with cingular). There I tried to sign on under my userid and password that I had chosen with Cingular and sure enought I get the message my account has been suspended.

So I tried to sign up as a new user and I got the message saying Pin in use.

Some helpful folks in the forum have said in the past to call Cingular and have them "release" the pin. I called cingular and they were totally clueless as to what a pin was. They were asking whether its the lock code on my phone etc instead of understanding I was talking about a blackberry pin.

Added to that I can't even get to the t-mobile blackberry website in order to even try to see if it will work there, because of the message above.

Of course RIM conveniently does not have a support number to call because I am sure they could mitigate this issue since this is defined on their servers.

HELP!!!!!
 
Yes I finally asked to be connected to the Blackberry support team. When they came online, they were able to release the pin and just like that I was able to get to the tmobile website and voila I was not getting that error message saying "We apologize there was an error", it came up with my pin number and asked me to confirm it and let me go ahead and set up my BIS accounts.
 
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