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Executive Tweet Suggests Cellular iPads Coming to T-Mobile

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Back in August, T-Mobile CEO John Legere hinted in an interview that T-Mobile would soon be carrying a "whole array of Apple products", with the company expanding their offerings of devices from Apple.

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Today, in a tweet linking to a story about Apple's upcoming media event on October 22, T-Mobile CEO John Legere writes:
What has two thumbs and is excited for October 22? #thisguy
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The tweet may be the CEO's cryptic way of hinting that next-generation cellular iPads may soon be available from Apple and T-Mobile stores preloaded with T-Mobile SIM cards and optimized for the carrier's LTE bands.

Of course, T-Mobile customers have long been able to put SIM cards from the carrier into iPads as Apple's cellular-equipped tablets are not carrier-locked, but being able to purchase them with a T-Mobile SIM already installed will be an added convenience.

AT&T, Sprint and Verizon already offer cellular-equipped iPads at their retail stores and Apple's various retail outlets.

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It's tweets like that that make me wonder why I haven't been able to climb the ladder higher in my company.
 
chirpie said:
It's tweets like that that make me wonder why I haven't been able to climb the ladder higher in my company.
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Climbing the ladder has nothing to do with ability. It's about who you know and what favors your willing to do for them.
 
I smell a very familiar smell..

The smell of an iPad Mini (T-Mobile LTE) with Retina Display in my hands by December. :D
 
Well, Galaxy Note fans, your large-screened iPhone is finally here... it's called the second generation iPad Mini. Ta-da!

(T-Mobile usually assigns phone numbers to tablets.)
 
To all of the people zinging Legere - have you not seen this man's keynote addresses? This is par for the course, and frankly, refreshing.

The guy has charisma and appears to know what he's doing with his business. Reminds me of some other guy I used to know.
 
Ryth said:
Climbing the ladder has nothing to do with ability. It's about who you know and what favors your willing to do for them.
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Maybe you're describing climbing the ladder at a soon-to-be defunct business. Successful businesses do not promote this way.
 
thetechnologist said:
Well, Galaxy Note fans, your large-screened iPhone is finally here... it's called the second generation iPad Mini. Ta-da!

(T-Mobile usually assigns phone numbers to tablets.)
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As far as I know, every carrier must assign a phone number to a SIM card regardless if it is in a device that can make calls or not. This does not suggest that the iPad will ever make telephone calls outside of Skype, FaceTime, etc.
 
I would consider doing only my LTE iPad through T-Mobile but $40 per month for 4.5 GB is too steep.
 
Damn that's a lot of different iPad sku's if they're all carrier locked.

Especially if they keep 4 storage configurations.
 
tann said:
Damn that's a lot of different iPad sku's if they're all carrier locked.

Especially if they keep 4 storage configurations.
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I'm sure Apple longs for the days of the 4S when they had a single chip that could cover all bands of 3G voice and data.

Choice is not something carriers what us to have.
 
Thumbs, hmm, I wonder if the new controllers will be revealed on the 22nd as well?

Would be a very nice touch.
 
Wonder what the price for "unlimited LTE" uncarrier tmobile data will be.

We already knew tmobile would get official iPad support in USA. Cause iPhone 5S Verizon/ATT/Tmobile version are all the same lte band support.

I would like to see 2GB/$20 plans. Unlimited for $50?
 
band issue

This is important because of the "standard bands" issue.

Remember that the original iPhone5 did not support the AWS band that carries a lot of T-Mobile traffic. An upgrade did add support for it but who knows if that made it into iPad. I don't.

If Apple does indeed support T-Mob then it will have that support.
 
tann said:
ahh gotcha. I did check their website and it said they are though which confused me.

Apples US website that is.
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As far as I know, cellular-equipped iPads in the U.S. are carrier locked.

The story may very well be different in the rest of the world due to regulatory laws?
 
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