Deactivate microcell

@Olmbre I also have a micro-cell which I do not remember if I deactivated. I canceled my AT&T account over a year ago. I want to sell my micro-cell to someone else, and I wan to make sure he can activate the micro-cell. Were you able to verify that the micro-cell is unregistered and the buyer of your micro-cell was able to activate the micro-cell?

@mboston There is no guarantee that canceling your cellular account will deactivate a MicroCell. AT&T will begin to shut the service down late this year so they would rather not have another MicroCell user only to go thru the process of telling them that in 10 or 11 months from now the service will be deactivated.

Try to the person you want to seel it to re-activate the MicroCell and see if they get an error message. If they do, then it hasn't been deactivated.

I plan to sell the micro cell on eBay, as such I can not ask a buyer will agree. Is there away I check by myself by looking at the lights of the microcell to know if it registered or not? Isn’t there a person in ATT that just put in a serial number and check?

Thank you for helping.

There isn't any way to tell by the light pattern if the MicroCell has been deactivated, other than a flashing green or red 3G loight, which can indicate other issues. I would be very surprised if you could find anyone at AT&T who would attempt to put in the serial number to see if it was still registered. They wouldn't in the past, again for security purposes. Your best bet would be to try and find someone who has a post paid AT&T cellular account and see if they can register the MicroCell and if an error message appears indicating that the MicroCell is already regisgtered.

Lets assume that I go to someone and he try to register and it does not allow him, what then? How I unregistered it?

One of the issues of asking a friend who has ATT to register the microcell for testing is we are now in social distancing due to the virus, and asking not technical person to this over the phone will not work.

I read in Amazon review of the product that someone purchased a used microcell and failed to activated it. So he called AT&T tech support, and after about 20 minutes on the mine they were able to unregister it from the old account and register it to the new post paid account. Do you have any experience with that?

@mboston The ONLY reliable way to deactivate and deregister a MicroCell is to do it from the origianl owner's myAT&T MicroCell Settings page. Obviously that is not possible in your case. I have heard stories like the one you mentioned but I think those are far from the norm and if true, that person was very lucky. It is certainly not AT&T's policy to do that. If you think about it, someone calls AT&T with a MicroCell that is still registered to another account and asks if AT&T can remove it from that account and register it to their account. If it were me on the AT&T side of the phone, that would send up all kinds of red flags.

Given the current situation of the MicroCell, if you can find someone at AT&T who even understands how the MicroCell works, you may be able to achieve that. I'm doubtful but it can't hurt to try. Just prepare yourself to be stuck with a doorstop.

Amazon reviews need to be taken with a grain of salt.

@lizdance40 I wouldn't go as far as to say their trash but they have certainly outlived their usefullness. Because I was bored and stuck at home like everyone else, I fired up my 154 just to see if it still worked and about 20 minutes later I was up and running with very good call quality.

@lizdance40 I understand your comment now. Trash because there will be no more service early next year, not trash becasue they don't work well.😉

@OttoPylot yes.

They work great now.

I have seen prices of $600 on ebay. Thats a lot for something with a limited lifespan

@lizdance40 $600 😱 I've got one 151, one 153 and one 154. here. Hmmmm..

@OttoPylot They are back down in the $200 range for the old and new version. Lots of white version left. the 154 was selling high once at&t stopped stocking them. Supply and demand.

@lizdance40 They do look kinda cool on the "electronics" shelf. Sort of like an "AT&T Award" 😁

@lizdance40 Hmmmm, bronze for the 151, silver for the 153, and gold for the 154 🤔. I like it!