T-Mobile USA to Begin Selling Apple Products in 2013

iMikeT said:

Again, this AFTER I activate my iPhone 5 and I begin a new two year contract with AT&T.

Oh well, I suppose AT&T will really have to offer me a sweet deal to stick with them in two years. Competition is a great thing!

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this is why you invest or save money for the unlock phones if your carrier is a devil.

Bob Coxner said:

from the Walmart website

"The $30 Unlimited Web & Text with 100 min talk plan works only with T-Mobile Phones purchased from a Walmart store or from Walmart.com."

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I currently have the plan with an iPhone 5 and so do many others. I activated it on a dumb phone and then switched the sim card to my 4S last summer.

AutoUnion39 said:

Is that a joke? Their 3G isn't even par.

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Riiiiiiiiight. Their 3G really "isn't par" [sic], no sir, not at all:

Thanks, but I'll take those 3G speeds.

This. Is. Awesome.

7enderbender said:

Here a statement per dowjones.com:

"T-Mobile USA's CEO John Legere said that it will be a "different and unique product" and that all analyst reports on T-Mobile USA's adaption of the iPhone "have been wrong." Still, it will take several months until Apple products will be launched, Legere also said at the Bonn event.

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What's weird about this is that Legere has also said the exact opposite today, too, according to this LA Times story:

John Legere, chief executive of T-Mobile USA, has confirmed the network will carry the iPhone. Talking about upcoming smartphones T-Mobile will carry, he held up an iPhone, saying the list included the Apple device.

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So . . . I'm confused as hell, but I want to believe the latter quote. Hard to say, when BOTH come from the same guy at the same event on the same day.

Consider me excited. I love T-Mobile, have since I got a sidekick. The prices are nice, phones are acceptable.

Bought a 3GS unlocked over a year ago (Im cheap) but can't wait to upgrade it when the iPhone is officially available at stores.

iAi said:

this is why you invest or save money for the unlock phones if your carrier is a devil.

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I'd rather have my carrier subsidize my phone if I'm going to use their services rather than buy an unlocked phone AND pay for their services.

I really wanted to jump ship to Sprint because of their truly unlimited data (non-throttled) and text plans. I ultimately decided to stick with the devil for the following reasons: they offered to give me the same rate plan as Sprint, I get to keep my "unlimited" plan, AT&T waived the stupid upgrade fee, and Sprint's slow 3G and limited 4G/LTE network. Of course, staying with AT&T has it's drawbacks: less than half-decent customer service, data throttling, and limited LTE coverage.

The MAJOR QUESTION is:

Will T-Mo jack up the price for the "iPhone Plan"?

Looking at the other three carriers, forget competitive pricing, they all start at $80/month...

gkarris said:

The MAJOR QUESTION is:

Will T-Mo jack up the price for the "iPhone Plan"?

Looking at the other three carriers, forget competitive pricing, they all start at $80/month...

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this is a great opportunity for tmobile to undercut the big carriers and finally bring back customers that have been siphoning away the past several years.

tmobile has some great pre-paid and value plans and I hope tmobile offering the iphone will strengthen the pre paid market

johndoejohndoes said:

Too bad the hot girl in their commercials won't come with it

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I absolutely **heart** the commercials where she puts on the helmet and tight biker gear!

Whats up with Apple PR?

So who the he** at Apple let t-mobile announce this before they could.... Would have thought that Apple would not let this be announced without a big event, or possibly the 5S announcement that will now presumably be on t-mobile also. Apple quietly comfirmed it with no big announcement, verry UN-APPLE like....

ComSense said:

Riiiiiiiiight. Their 3G really "isn't par" [sic], no sir, not at all:

Thanks, but I'll take those 3G speeds.

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Nice speeds in Richmond, VA. Curious to know if you have ever traveled down I64E to Hampton Roads (Norfolk/Virginia Beach) and if you ran into similar speeds down there???
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Xenomorph said:

Ja, ist es Deutsche Telekom!

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oh right, they talked a bit about those 4G capability stuff on the iPhone 5 keynote... Deutsch Telekom I remember...but I thought it is just the german part of the company, like the HQ is in "not Germany" and besides that main company in "not Germany" they have a lower German part -__- okay, I gettin' confused by myself haha... btw funny german stuff you talking there

Welcome to the party, pal.

andyx3x said:

This is 100 percent correct. I have the $30 plan right now and I fully expect T-Mobile to take it away from everyone when the iPhone officially comes on board.

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So T-Mobile will be carrying the iPhone 5 in early 2013 and won't have to wait for the 4S?

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Don't know. All I know is that my store received iPhone 5 cases and accessories. I never saw any 4/4S cases.

RotaryP7 said:

Don't know. All I know is that my store received iPhone 5 cases and accessories. I never saw any 4/4S cases.

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Sorry, I mean the 5S, not 4S.

I was asking if the fact that you guys are getting iPhone 5 cases means that T-Mobile might be carrying the iPhone 5 shortly, maybe in the next month or two.

andyx3x said:

The point is that this plan will not be available anymore when the iPhone officially comes to T-Mobile.

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This is when TMO becomes ATT and continues to change plans till they become twisted like Darth Vader. I hope they don't change just cause they have Apple.

I think T-Mobile should start offering the iPhone 4s to start off.

Destroysall.

koban4max said:

This is when TMO becomes ATT and continues to change plans till they become twisted like Darth Vader. I hope they don't change just cause they have Apple.

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T-Mobile is eliminating their subsidized "Classic" phone plans and moving exclusively to their unsubsidized "Value" plans where you buy your phone separately from the plan (though I *think* you can still make payments).

So unlocked phones vs. AT&T's locked phones and no monthly subsidized billing rates when your phone has been paid off. I'd say those are two distinct differences from AT&T, not including the lower T-Mobile rates.

Link: https://www.macrumors.com/2012/12/0...ng-subsidized-device-pricing-options-in-2013/

Bob Coxner said:

from the Walmart website

"The $30 Unlimited Web & Text with 100 min talk plan works only with T-Mobile Phones purchased from a Walmart store or from Walmart.com."

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The Walmart website is wrong. It's also available as a "web only" deal on T-Mobile's website. A few months back I signed up for the plan and bought a SIM, which I then popped into my iPhone 3GS.

T-Mobile is very supportive of people who want to bring their own phone... of any type (not just iPhones in other words).

T-Mobile also has been selling nano-sims on their website since November, so there's no reason you couldn't get an unlocked iPhone 5 and put it on this plan. At some point I'll probably do that.

Finally! I don't have to stuck with AT&T anymore. AT&T's prices and plans are basically robbery.

DT is also spinning off T-Mobile USA into it's own corporate entity (will be separately publicly traded) as soon as the MetroPCS merger is finalized. This is a great year for T-Mobile.

My question is, how soon can we expect to see them start selling the phones/Apple products? You'd think they'd want to do something relatively soon, considering that there are already areas with full 4G LTE coverage -- particularly big metro areas that claim the most customers nominally speaking. The longer they wait, the more potential customers they could lose.

I think late 2013/summer is too far. I predict something much, much sooner.

tardman91 said:

I think that $30/month plan is a value plan, which requires you to pay full price for your phone anyway.

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No the $30 per month is a Monthly 4G(Prepaid) plan. The Value plans are 2yr contract postpaid plans.

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Looks like T-Mobile is already looking beyond Sprint and plans to go directly after AT&T.

http://www.tmonews.com/2012/12/did-...ly-hint-at-iphone-pricing-marketing-campaign/

“We’re going to target Sprint. No, that’s not right. Sprint is too easy to target from a network standpoint. We’re going to target AT&T.”

Rot'nApple said:

Nice speeds in Richmond, VA. Curious to know if you have ever traveled down I64E to Hampton Roads (Norfolk/Virginia Beach) and if you ran into similar speeds down there???
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I haven't, but I've seen a number of refarmed 3G sightings in that area on airportal.de, and you'll probably see similar speeds there, too. At least in the spots where there were 3G "sightings."

Tiger8 said:

You might be better off terminating it yourself and paying ETF fees, if you indeed will be saving $50

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I wish I could as of right now, but it's not financially feasible. My contract would cost $300 to Terminate while my wife's would cost about $225ish. If I had the extra money now, that would be great, but I don't. I've even tried sells stuff to try and terminate, but people don't seem to be into 49ers memorabilia as much as they used to.