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As a T-Mobile user in a contract, this kinda hurts. With T-Mobile refarming to 1900MhZ to offer 3G compatibility to iPhone and over a million unlocked iPhone users on there network, I'm very surprised at the lack of an official T-Mobile iPhone.

My guess is you won't see a iPhone on T-Mobile until they are finished rolling out the refarm or if the next iPhone supports 3G over AWS.
 
:confused:

Strange comments aside, this certainly looks interesting to me if the actual coverage is good, I'll be watching how this pans out.

I thought that was a thing on MacRumours now, take a completely unrelated story and make it about how Apple is killing the pro market? I saw loads of it in yesterday's Redmatica story, guess I misjudged :p
 
I live in the city so technically it would probably work for me most of the time. But I like to hike and snowboard and bike and travel outside the US. And I very rarely have any trouble finding coverage on AT&T. Even when I lived in the mountains of Wyoming.

This phone is useless for anyone who doesn't stay completely in a city the majority of the time.

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Yeah, I get that. Maybe great for your kids but no adult that does any traveling will want this phone. That is unless they have crap credit and can't get a real plan for adults.

Cricket operates its own network in about 40 (mostly urban) regions. For the rest of the country, it uses the Sprint network. So it basically offers the same coverage as Sprint.
 
Good in theory but check out their coverage. This phone is pretty much worthless if you travel anywhere. :rolleyes:

I find it annoying when I have no service anywhere. Imagine this thing, you would be surprised when you HAD service.

What is this map? Look at their official website: http://www.mycricket.com/coverage/maps/wireless

Most of the area is, indeed, Roaming Talk & Text Coverage, but if you live in the dark green area, iPhone on Cricket is a very suitable option..
 
I used to work at an Apple Store and my first day on the sales floor was right after the iPhone 3G launch. I will never forget my first customer, because he walked up to me and said that he "wanted to buy an iPhone so he could take it to Cricket and FLASH it!". LOL :D
 
Good in theory but check out their coverage. This phone is pretty much worthless if you travel anywhere. :rolleyes:

I find it annoying when I have no service anywhere. Imagine this thing, you would be surprised when you HAD service.

I rarely travel, and it looks like they have great coverage in my area. This is looking VERY appealing to me.
 
Cricket Wireless and iPhone

Few questions:

1) Can you switch to Cricket Wireless using your old iPhone?
2) If Cricket Wireless is going to offer the iPhone soon, what about T-Mobile USA?
3) Does the $55 per month cover everything including tax?
 
Good in theory but check out their coverage. This phone is pretty much worthless if you travel anywhere. :rolleyes:

I find it annoying when I have no service anywhere. Imagine this thing, you would be surprised when you HAD service.

You sound like Verizon trying to slander AT&T's coverage.
All carriers have holes in their coverage and make it up with roaming or some cases like Verizon, you get nothing when going down rural parts of interstates like I-90 and I-5.
 
Few questions:

1) Can you switch to Cricket Wireless using your old iPhone?
2) If Cricket Wireless is going to offer the iPhone soon, what about T-Mobile USA?
3) Does the $55 per month cover everything including tax?

1) If by "old" you mean iPhone 4 CDMA, It's CDMA (if it's based on Sprint's network), so to switch is at the carrier's discretion. Can't just pop in a new SIM. So probably no.
2) I dunno what T-Mobile's deal is
3) Probably not
 
As a T-Mobile user in a contract, this kinda hurts. With T-Mobile refarming to 1900MhZ to offer 3G compatibility to iPhone and over a million unlocked iPhone users on there network, I'm very surprised at the lack of an official T-Mobile iPhone.

We will be last or will never get it. Sucks.
 
I was so excited about this announcement, and then I see - no Washington, DC in the list of "Coming Soon" cities. SUCKS! In our market, there are tons of folks who could drop $500 for the 16GB iPhone.
 
Sounds like an unsound plan to me

No contract and being subsidized by the company? What brainiac CEO thought of this idea. What's to prevent customers from buying the phone and using it on a different carrier with better coverage/terms? Cricket could take this in the shorts...
 
No contract and being subsidized by the company? What brainiac CEO thought of this idea. What's to prevent customers from buying the phone and using it on a different carrier with better coverage/terms? Cricket could take this in the shorts...

How you going to do that with a CDMA device?
 
You're assuming they're going to allow non-Cricket phones on their network. I am sure they will, but you never know.

I am sure sticker shock will affect some buyers. They'll walk in and be like...whoa it costs how much?

Hmm, didn't think about that. I hope they will be able to take in unlocked 4S's to be activated on their network, although I know Sprint sometimes doesn't allow their MVNO's to do that.
 
re: Cricket

Cricket is on CDMA. Actually, they use "tri-band CDMA" in most major cities they're in (including Las Vegas, St. Louis, and Chicago). That used to be the main reason you couldn't just bring your own CDMA smartphone and put it on Cricket's network. They never had any policy against doing it. You could call up and give them the ESN and so forth, and they'd do their best to activate it for you. But phones like the Motorola Droids wouldn't work because they only do dual-band CDMA. Their radios aren't capable of using the third frequency.

Last time I checked, Memphis, TN was one of the few major cities Cricket was in that hadn't yet been upgraded to tri-band CDMA, so if you lived there, you could still re-use old CDMA phones of all types. You'd go to "roaming" as soon as you left the Memphis area with them, though -- and at that point? Cricket only gave you something like 60 minutes per month of talk time on "roam" and no data.


The article didn't say. Is it a CDMA or GSM network?
 
Oh I like the date of July 22nd. Right after WWDC. Just wanted to throw it out there. :p
 
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