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U.S. Cellular to Offer iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c on November 8

RMo said:
Nobody cares for your attitude. People do, however, care about US Cellular because it's the fifth-largest carrier in the US, and even you obviously care because you not only read the article (or at least the headline--who am I kidding) and commented on it. Plus, you're reading a site about Apple rumors, which at this point seems to be mostly about iPhone--so if you really don't like it, I think we'd all appreciate it if you just stopped.
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Yea, your preaching to the choir on that one buddy.
 
MattMJB0188 said:
Wait, is anyone even on US Cellular? Nope. So why do we care?
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US Cellular offers lots of service in areas where you won't got any service from Verizon, Sprint, ATT, or Tmobile, or even Straighttalk. The more remote areas. I've been to Areas where no other carrier has service at all, but US Cellular does.

I actually keep a US C Blackberry on hand ( its only 80 bucks a month. Pocket change ) for when my job takes me into the more remote areas in the states ( Mountain areas and lots of the south and midwest, as well as parts of the gulf coast ), they have much service than most in those Areas.
 
G51989 said:
US Cellular offers lots of service in areas where you won't got any service from Verizon, Sprint, ATT, or Tmobile, or even Straighttalk. The more remote areas. I've been to Areas where no other carrier has service at all, but US Cellular does.

I actually keep a US C Blackberry on hand ( its only 80 bucks a month. Pocket change ) for when my job takes me into the more remote areas in the states ( Mountain areas and lots of the south and midwest, as well as parts of the gulf coast ), they have much service than most in those Areas.
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You keep that in mind when you travel. They are a regional carrier and do not offer coverage throughout the whole country. Many people don't get that.
 
MattMJB0188 said:
You keep that in mind when you travel. They are a regional carrier and do not offer coverage throughout the whole country. Many people don't get that.
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False. They have partner coverage in areas that they don't directly serve, and it covers just about anywhere you want to go in the US (and, in fact, beyond) that most other carriers would cover. Their map looks pretty good to me: http://www.uscellular.com/coverage-map/coverage-indicator.html

MattMJB0188 said:
Yea, your preaching to the choir on that one buddy.
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So then...stop? I don't get what you mean.
 
RMo said:
Straight Talk is just an AT&T and Verizon MVNO (Verizon for iPhone where I live, but I'm not sure if they use AT&T depending on where you live or not). Shouldn't they technically should already support it, and it's just a matter of when they decide to start selling it to facilitate the activation process? What happens if you BYOD and it's an iPhone? I know their online activator doesn't support that for any iPhone, but can customer service do that for you?

(Unlike what will probably happen with US Cellular, it's not like you're getting a subsidy, anyway...)
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Straight talk requires you to update your MMS settings even when using AT&T and Apple locks those settings down unless you get an unlocked phone. I have an AT&T iPhone 4S on Straight talk and I had to fool it with a sim swap trick (which only works on older versions of iOS 6) to get picture messaging to work, and even then I cannot picture message some people.

This is not an issue when you buy an iphone from straight talk, which was not available at the time that I got a used AT&T iphone 4s. Rather than trying to do a sim swap trick (which only works on the iPhone 4S at this point), I'm just going to get a phone with the settings correctly built in or unlocked straight from the source when it's available.

No more fear of updating to iOS 7!
 
That all depends on what USC uses. ATT traditionally uses GSM networks so if the USC phone is the same, theoretically it could be interchangeable assuming USC doesn't employ a carrier lock (locking the phone into only the frequencies USC uses).
 
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