They can and will cut you off for using too much data. They can even suspend your service if you go over the limit too many times. I've had straighttalk customers come and switch to tmobile because they kept hitting the data limit. It's a great deal for $45 though if you use less than 2gb per month.
Mms and group messaging don't work on iOS 6 without jailbreaking. But there's no jailbreak yet. Some people have been able to rig it to work by putting a tmobile sim in the phone and editing the apn settings before they clear out.
I have a unlocked verizon cdma iphone 5 what net10 sim card would I be able to use the att or t-mobile once? What speed would I get?
You can send media via iMessage but not regular MMS. "4G" with straighttalk is pretty crappy in my area, I don't know if its the AT&T network they use or if MVNO customers are low priority. Texting and calling is fine and I haven't had any usage or cutoff problems.
Personally I would use the ATT one as the iPhone 5 is completely compatible with their network, even the Verizon model is a world phone when it comes to 3G. The current difference between the ATT and Verizon models is the LTE frequencies it can access, but that really doesn't matter as you wont get LTE access through net10 anyways (See Below). T-Mobile is a no-go as you will be stuck on Edge speeds most everywhere, which I forget the specifics but is like max of 512Kbps or something like that, very very slow.
In case no one explained to you, the way a MVNO such as Net10 or Straightalk works is they "rent" network usage from major cell companies like Verizon, ATT, and T-Mobile. This means that any phone running on Net10 will use one of those networks (though with the sim card program [BYOD] you can only use ATT or T-Mobile). At this time none of those companies have allowed these MVNOs to use their LTE networks, and it will probably remain that way for quite some time, but what they rent out are their 3G networks. Thus, with ATT you will be getting their HSPA and HSPA+ network speeds even if you are in a LTE area. Like I posted earlier I am getting about 3-8 and I'll post some screenshots below. Coverage so far has been great for me, like I said you are getting ATT coverage and I have ATT's HSPA+ most everywhere I go.
The best of luck to you, and enjoy your no contract, 50 bucks a month unlimited everything iPhone!
PS: Just a reminder that that usage is from Dec. 1 (When I got my iPhone and activated it on Net10) to Dec. 25.
In my area their is t-mobile service (Northern VA) and they do offer t-mobile 4G but before I go out and spend money on a t-mobile ST sim card I wanted to know dose the iPhone 5 through verizon CDMA band have the ability to use t-mobile's 4G band 1900MHZ
Does Straight Talk offer Nano sims?
The amount of missinformation in this thread is astounding. I have no idea why some people can't keep their yap shut and insist on misleading people.
There is no set point at which ST will throttle you or turn off your data. Some people get cut off some get throttled while others use data far beyond 2GB with no change in service. I've used as much as 3.5GB with not even a peep from ST. Most people asume that staying below 2GB is "safe".
I'm an ST customer for over a 1.5 year, used it with iPhone 4, 4s, 5 and Android, Nokia phones.
Right now I'm using iPhone 5 Verizon on ST(AT&T) $45 a month unlimited plan. I have HSPA+ where available and MMS and SMS without a jailbreak.
You don't need a jailbreak to have MMS working. Read post #19 here:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthr...running-a-new-iPhone-5-on-Straight-Talk/page2
Read the above thread and check out the ST section on that forum and all your questions will be answered.
Just for the record I was speaking of my experience from Net10 (different than ST), and the way they work is with the 50,000 minute system as explained in their TOS.