T-mobile (specifically one of the many Deutsche Telekom companies) is one of five or six major multi-national carriers with iPhone worldwide, just not in the US. Fortunately or not, I have ATT coverage.
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Why not a T-Mobile Iphone?
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T-mobile (specifically one of the many Deutsche Telekom companies) is one of five or six major multi-national carriers with iPhone worldwide, just not in the US. Fortunately or not, I have ATT coverage.
Middle-aged T-Mobile user here.I'm a T-Mobile Adult too!
I use them because they have a pay-as-you-go plan that only costs me $10 every 90 days. However, it's that cheap because I rarely talk on the phone and when I do my calls tend to be very brief.
I would hope Apple would sign up with Boost mobile and sell their phones at liquor stores before they allow that to happen.
Does Verizon have any phones they don't mess with (rebrand with their logo, re-write the OS/UI, etc)? Blackberries maybe?
U.S. T-Mobile uses different technology than standard GSM / 3g carriers around the world, therefore most of the standard GSM phones don't work fully with T-Mobile U.S. at full 3g speeds.
Apple is not going to make a phone specifically for a small market such as T-Mobile U.S.
Verizon adds Verizon pay per use (subscription fees) apps such as v-cast v-navigator to almost all the phones, including BB.
With Verizon if you want Visual voice mail you have to pay.
With Verizon if you want simultaneous voice and data, it's not possible.
Apple is not going to make a phone specifically for a small market such as T-Mobile U.S.
Verizon adds Verizon pay per use (subscription fees) apps such as v-cast v-navigator to almost all the phones, including BB.
With Verizon if you want Visual voice mail you have to pay.
With Verizon if you want simultaneous voice and data, it's not possible.
Probably not, but I'd observe that T-Mo now has a fleet of 3G cellphones from numerous major handset manufacturers, many of which sell at overall rates far below the iPhone. If it's profitable for them, I'm not sure it wouldn't be profitable for Apple. It's really a fairly minor change to make the alternate version.
I can see an iPhone in one of those plastic cases hanging up with "Boost Mobile" written on the packaging like some cheap pay as you go phone. Lol I wish I could find ONE phone without verizon **** on it. With GSM carriers like AT&T you can atleast have that...IMO carriers should just be dumb pipes, I would gladly pay $600 for a handset and just pop a sim in if I didn't have ti deal with carriers ******** these days...
Well the 2100/1700 band pair is pretty new and I don't see it being very widespread but it is already in use in Japan, being used in the future in Canada and is going to be pretty widespread in the US with T-Mobile and some other services. Also you could have said the same thin about the 1900 and 850mhz range when the US first adopted those but look 850 is used allot more now for even 3G. IMO if the US just followed the typical frequency allocation style we would most likely not have these issues but both 900mhz and 1800 were being used...(do we really need cordless phones on 900? Would save some headaches...)
You might hear different things since Vodafone operates in many countries. For example, in NZ they use 2100 MHz in cities and 900 in towns.
Do you know what technology Boost uses? They pulled out of NZ a few years ago but were using CDMA at 800 MHz.
Oh alright I orignially wasn't being specific to the UK anyways. I know in Germany they use 900mhz UMTS. also I thought boost like virgin mobile used CDMA and GSM depdning on the country/area.
In the US, I think Boost is an MVNO that uses Sprint's networks...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_Mobile
So apparently CDMA + I think IDEN is the old network that Nextel operated before they were acquired/merged.
I doubt I'd switch to T-Mobile based on where I live now, but I'd be all for it with their $50 for unlimited everything. That would perhaps put pressure on AT&T to at least stop jacking us for text messaging or maybe give us tiered data plans. I'm not so concerned about minute charges due to my massive rollover minutes, but I really get pissed about paying extra for the few text messages I send when I'm forking out $30 for a data plan. You'd think they could throw in 200 free.