That was what I was told when I bought it -- and I am certainly expecting it - but I haven't travelled yet abroad to test.
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iPhone 6s Now Available SIM-Free in Apple Online Store
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In Thailand traveling at the moment. Was in China last week. Att and tmo versions work fine both roaming and with local SIM cards.
Unlike ATT, Verizon is unable to use data and voice at the same time which I think is the reason you are unable to make the selections you were trying
Seems like you can actually reserve the Sim-Free Models as they are currently IN stock. Checked some stores for the east coast that is.
I'm confused. I thought that, by a somewhat recent US law change, if you owned your phone outright and wanted to leave your carrier for another then your current carrier MUST unlock it if you request it. So if you've paid it off your Verizon phone after fulfilling a 2 year contract and want to move it to another carrier then Verizon will unlock it and any other carrier will activate it. ALL carriers MUST now do this. So who cares about buying a phone that's sim-free or unlocked anymore? An iPhone 6s is a mass produced thing - they're not making special editions for any carrier. I don't get why this thread even matters. I must be missing something fundamental...
Hmmm...
Well, I guess I never looked at the specs side by side. I just work at a new and used cell shop & know that when we get VZW iPhones in, we can sell them on any carrier. ATT ones we cannot.
I ordered a sim free, suppose to ship Oct 28-Nov 2. I have Verizon. I plan to use the sim on my iPhone 5.
I'll let you know if I have any problems.
They just need to do this from the start b.c there is a large market for buying phones outright.
You can do that here, too. However most people still buy phones through carriers here.
So you bought full price phone from AT&T and are still saddled with their high prices. Doesn't make sense. I went from paying $110.00 for two phones with a 2 year contract (with AT&T) to $40 for two phones with no contract with Cricket. I am using the same iPhone 5s. I switched once my contract was over. With Cricket, I am getting unlimited voice and text and 2.5GB of data for each line. I am part of a 5 line group save even though I just have two lines.
Don't be so sure. SIM free versions are really meant to work on carriers that use a SIM card. Verizon, Sprint and StraightTalk that uses one of the CDMA carriers don't use SIM cards for voice anyway. At least with iPhone 6, a Sprint or Verizon iPhone will work on AT&T and T-Mobile but not the other way around. So, if you want a phone that is portable across Verizon and AT&T, it is better to buy the Verizon version rather than the AT&T version.
Most likely because China was in the first wave of countries so they didn't have to hold off advertising one as SIM free to discourage scalpers.
The SIM free models are supposed to show up on CDMA carrier white lists. Technically there is no reason that the AT&T or T-Mobile versions can't work on Sprint or Verizon. If you have an active SIM already you can insert it into an unlocked iPhone 6 or 6s (including Plus models) and it will work just fine. However the carriers themselves still cling to their outdated "activation" policies when you open a new account and thus sometimes refuse to do so if the phone doesn't show up in their database. That isn't an issue with the legacy GSM carriers who are used to opening accounts with SIM cards only.
Yep, just reserved a SIM Free 128 GB 6S Plus here in ATL. I'll be picking it up after lunch.
Every year this same issue ("sim-free") comes up. For three years now I've bought the unlocked T-Mobile phone prior to the release of the "sim-free" and stick in my own sim. This is much ado about nothing.
According to Sascha Segan it is unlocked. See first paragraph:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2492316,00.asp
I ordered a T-mobile 6s plus on the first pre-order day and paid full price, and when I received the phone on 9/25 I was able to confirm that it was unlocked. I ordered my wife a 6s directly from T-mobile and it was locked to T-mobile.
However, I'm returning my 6s plus so that I can get the SIM free version for band 30. Have it reserved for 11AM.
A mere formality, I have the exact same phone too. Next year it'll all be one model, calling it now.
This year the sim free has band 30 while the T-Mobile version does not. Slight difference this year it seems.
I mean it's literally the same phone, they just print a different label, don't include a SIM, and throw in a removal tool.
Did you buy it from the apple store or the ATT store? If you bought it from the apple store, just restore it using itunes and will it say congratulations your phone is now unlocked. I got the att version from apple and it did that.