this is why you invest or save money for the unlock phones if your carrier is a devil. 😀
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T-Mobile USA to Begin Selling Apple Products in 2013
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this is why you invest or save money for the unlock phones if your carrier is a devil. 😀
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.
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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What's weird about this is that Legere has also said the exact opposite today, too, according to this LA Times story:
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.😀
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.😀
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.
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
I absolutely **heart** the commercials where she puts on the helmet and tight biker gear!
coolant113
macrumors 6502
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....
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....
Rot'nApple
macrumors 65816
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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iPusch
macrumors 6502
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 😱
Don't know. All I know is that my store received iPhone 5 cases and accessories. I never saw any 4/4S cases.
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.
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.
John.B
macrumors 601
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/
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Westside guy
macrumors 604
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.
maxwelltech
macrumors 6502
Finally! I don't have to stuck with AT&T anymore. AT&T's prices and plans are basically robbery.
SnowLeopard OSX
macrumors 6502a
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.
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.
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/
Were going to target Sprint. No, thats not right. Sprint is too easy to target from a network standpoint. Were going to target AT&T.
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."
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.