Cingular to Charge $5 for Older Phones

August 1, 2006

(AP) -- About 4.7 million Cingular Wireless subscribers with older phones will have to pay $5 extra each month as the company tries to prod them to get new handsets so it can devote its entire network to one type of signal.

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