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.
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iPhone Coming to U.S. Prepaid Carrier Cricket on June 22
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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.
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
Good in theory but check out their coverage. This phone is pretty much worthless if you travel anywhere.
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
Good in theory but check out their coverage. This phone is pretty much worthless if you travel anywhere.
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?
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.
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.
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
I screencapped it from the exact website you linked to. I zoomed out.
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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.
Doesn't prepaid mean that you pay whenever you run out of credit? As opposed to a fixed monthly amount? Then what's the difference between this and a contract??
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...
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.
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.
