Best prepaid plan for iPhone 3G

[11colmil]

Wow... It's been a while since i came to this thread.

I wound up going to radioshack and buying a cheap pay as you go nokia and added an extra 15 to the airtime. Well, i got up to the counter and the guy activated it for me there and put the sim in the **** nokia phone. (Which is partially my fault for not knowing at the time"

Now it's locked 6 months to the nokia and i can't stand how crappy the phone is. Ugh, isn't there any way to unlock the sim easily?

 

[bella92108]

Wow... It's been a while since i came to this thread.

I wound up going to radioshack and buying a cheap pay as you go nokia and added an extra 15 to the airtime. Well, i got up to the counter and the guy activated it for me there and put the sim in the **** nokia phone. (Which is partially my fault for not knowing at the time"

Now it's locked 6 months to the nokia and i can't stand how crappy the phone is. Ugh, isn't there any way to unlock the sim easily?

Just get a sim from ATT and call them and do a sim-swap. I've done it twice.

 

[11colmil]

Just get a sim from ATT and call them and do a sim-swap. I've done it twice.

I might just do that. What do i do? Just walk into AT&T and ask to purchase a gophone sim then go home, give them the IMEI of the Nokia, ask them to transfer my balance/plan and throw the sim in the iPhone?

 

[bella92108]

I might just do that. What do i do? Just walk into AT&T and ask to purchase a gophone sim then go home, give them the IMEI of the Nokia, ask them to transfer my balance/plan and throw the sim in the iPhone?

I'm not sure how they do it. I just walked in and said I need a go-phone sim and they handed me an AT&T sim... it doesn't say gophone or anything. They asked to put it in my phone, but i just told them i ordered one on ebay and wouldn't be delivered for a couple days. they don't seem to care too much.

 

[snowman1]

I might just do that. What do i do? Just walk into AT&T and ask to purchase a gophone sim then go home, give them the IMEI of the Nokia, ask them to transfer my balance/plan and throw the sim in the iPhone?

That seems about right actually. When I first signed up for the gophone plan, they gave me a regular sim card and I put that in my razr. Once the iPhone shipped, I went back to the ATT store and asked them to transfer the number/plan to a microsim. They did it, and now I have an iPhone 4 on prepaid! They didn't even ask for the IMEI.

 

[Applejuiced]

I'm not sure how they do it. I just walked in and said I need a go-phone sim and they handed me an AT&T sim... it doesn't say gophone or anything. They asked to put it in my phone, but i just told them i ordered one on ebay and wouldn't be delivered for a couple days. they don't seem to care too much.

Yes, I dont see why they would care.
They're still making money wether thats prepaid or postpaid.

 

[bella92108]

Yes, I dont see why they would care.
They're still making money wether thats prepaid or postpaid.

@ $20 per 100 mb they're making a LOT more money on prepaid, hehe,so I agree they don't care. Back in the days of unlimited iPhone data they'd probably be more strict, but for the new plans i'm sure they're encouraging data-hog devices.

 

[SpaceKitty]

@ $20 per 100 mb they're making a LOT more money on prepaid, hehe,so I agree they don't care. Back in the days of unlimited iPhone data they'd probably be more strict, but for the new plans i'm sure they're encouraging data-hog devices.

The fact is, is that they do care. They throttle the speeds on prepaid data.

Back when I had my $19.99 unlimited Media Net plan, I was using it with my iPhone 3G. Download speeds tested out at about 300Kbps. That same phone using my postpaid iPhone sim would get about 1.5Mbps. I couldn't take the speeds anymore so I ended up selling the prepaid sim to someone else.

They control the bandwidth speeds probably hoping people don't notice and that if they do notice, they will go to postpaid. Most people probably just think that the 3G network is horribly slow and don't do anything about it.

 

[bella92108]

The fact is, is that they do care. They throttle the speeds on prepaid data.

Back when I had my $19.99 unlimited Media Net plan, I was using it with my iPhone 3G. Download speeds tested out at about 300Kbps. That same phone using my postpaid iPhone sim would get about 1.5Mbps. I couldn't take the speeds anymore so I ended up selling the prepaid sim to someone else.

They control the bandwidth speeds probably hoping people don't notice and that if they do notice, they will go to postpaid. Most people probably just think that the 3G network is horribly slow and don't do anything about it.

Those speeds would be a dream. In SF I get about 600-800Kbps on prepaid AND postpaid. I think in my market they don't differentiate, as both are equally sub-par. I do notice that sometimes when I can't use data on postpaid, I can on prepaid... so there may be something to that, or I might just be imagining it.

 

[SpaceKitty]

Those speeds would be a dream. In SF I get about 600-800Kbps on prepaid AND postpaid. I think in my market they don't differentiate, as both are equally sub-par. I do notice that sometimes when I can't use data on postpaid, I can on prepaid... so there may be something to that, or I might just be imagining it.

Well during the day, I get about 200-300 on my iPhone 4. At night, I get about 3Mbps. Have you tried testing your speeds at about 3-5AM?

 

[bella92108]

Well during the day, I get about 200-300 on my iPhone 4. At night, I get about 3Mbps. Have you tried testing your speeds at about 3-5AM?

Yeah, best I've ever gotten is about 1.2 mbps... 3 would be a dream!

 

[Applejuiced]

The fact is, is that they do care. They throttle the speeds on prepaid data.

Back when I had my $19.99 unlimited Media Net plan, I was using it with my iPhone 3G. Download speeds tested out at about 300Kbps. That same phone using my postpaid iPhone sim would get about 1.5Mbps. I couldn't take the speeds anymore so I ended up selling the prepaid sim to someone else.

They control the bandwidth speeds probably hoping people don't notice and that if they do notice, they will go to postpaid. Most people probably just think that the 3G network is horribly slow and don't do anything about it.

Yes, that is true on the throttling.
I was just saying when selling prepaid sims they don't really care what device you're using.

 

[kileskhons]

Any AT&T prepaid sim will work.
You will have to unlock it if you want to use Tmobile prepaid.
Up to you.
Check out their websites for pricing details.

Hi... i am using a iPhone 3G, as a pay-as go phone through AT&T’s GoPhone program. what's the matter is AT&T doesn’t properly support using GoPhone with iPhone .So how can i make calls and use prepaid data and how can i setting up an iPhone as a prepaid phone. Can anyone knows,please reply the post regarding this... thanks.