What's the harm? I bought my 64gb 6s for $299 using my full upgrade and just re-upped for another 2 years. I don't plan on getting an iPhone 7 and I'm an UDP customer so re-upping for me is a no brainer.
What am I missing?
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Activating AT&T iPhone 6s
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What's the harm? I bought my 64gb 6s for $299 using my full upgrade and just re-upped for another 2 years. I don't plan on getting an iPhone 7 and I'm an UDP customer so re-upping for me is a no brainer.
What am I missing?
You clearly have no clue how phone frequencies work. The sim has NOTHING to do with getting band 30, it's all about the phone. Your SIM is provisioned for the ATT network. It allows use of any frequency the phone and the network support. You DO NOT need a new sim to be able to use Band 30. That's the most laughable thing I've ever heard. You shouldn't be allowed to post such bad information on here.
YOU DO NOT NEED A NEW SIM TO USE AT&T BAND 30, YOU ONLY NEED THE IPHONE THAT HAS BAND 30.
Remember where you read it? Seems to me its based on the chip in the phone, hence two models, not the sim. But you could be right.
Good to know! If you had read more carefully you would have read in my previous post where I said I was just passing on info I'd read.. And asked if it was correct. What you said makes perfect sense. Though it also makes electronic sense that a "key" file, of sorts, to unlock the LTE30 band could be in the SIM.
Being locked into a contract.... YUCK. I will never again sign a contract for a cell phone. In the old days it was the norm. Now it's just foolish, IMO.
Not in every case, but those that are paying some upfront charge and doing a 2 year deal are missing out on some better pricing. It is all smoke and mirrors my friend. We goto of the 2 year merry go round with ATT and now save $1000 a year.
I just have one phone on my account so there's no earthly way I can save that amount of money - not sure how you are. The primary driver for me re-upping on another 2 year contract is that I'm cool with my legacy UDP that was recently upped to a 22gb monthly soft "cap". Hard to walk away from that.
I believe the new sim is preprogrammed to the updated number and just needs to be activated (like when you get a new credit card in the mail but have to call to activate), but I could be totally wrong. It's what makes the most logical sense to me. I don't really know because I always just swap my old sim haha.
Like other have said a simple sim swap will work. The only time you don't want to do that is in rare cases like mine. My parents only have a dumb phone so no data plan. When I use their upgrade I have to select a data plan when I order the iPhone. Before I can activate the phone I have to call so the can swap it in their system, and remove the data plan on my parents line.
So I currently have ATT mobile share with 4 lines. I used a upgrade that was available on a secondary line to upgrade to the 6sPlus and used next. My line is the main mobile line and i am using a iphone 6 plus. So i can just take my sim card out of my 6 plus and put it into the 6s Plus and turn it on and everything will be ok? The new 6splus is for me I wasnt eligible for an upgrade yet so i used another line. Thanks in advance.
Yeah that's in store, the topic here was ordering online. In the store is entirely different.
^--- This. I also compared the model numbers on my old sim and the new one and they're identical.
in the package there is a paper with the number you have to call to activate it on a different line.