That's amazing, no more having to wait till the end of your term!
You never had to wait the end of your term with VZW. In the past you had to wait three months from purchase, now you wait zero months.
(Compare with Sprint who seem determined to do everything possible to drive customers away. For a long time they couldn't state what their GSM unlock policy was, then recently they decided they would unlock after 6 months.
What a bunch of tools:
- worse network than VZW: check
- worse GSM policy than VZW, even though it costs Sprint nothing: check
- so we'll have lower rates? god no --- let's have rates comparable to VZW.)
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Any news on the AT&T variant? Is it unlocked also?
ATT unlocked GSM? God no.
ATT will unlock it after two years. If you have a really good excuse and find a nice ATT person, you may get it unlocked slightky earlier, like after 20 months.
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Nope, you have to buy the AT&T model in order to use the iPhone 5 on T-Mobile's LTE network.
It's beyond me why anyone goes with Verizon or AT&T. Both offer the same service as T-Mobile or Virgin, at almost double the price.
But hey, you get a subsidized phone....
This is an iPhone 5 discussion. Do T-Mobile offer iPhone 5 (yet --- they may well by next year)? Do Virgin? If not your, then snark is pretty damn stupid, isn't it?
This is like responding to a discussion about US phone plans by telling us that we should all switch to some South Korean carrier.