“Rumors are that Apple will come out with an iPhone capable of running on T-Mobile’s 3G/4G network, and today T-Mobile took the first steps in the Apple/T-Mobile partnership,” iDownloadBlog reports. “T-Mobile is now giving free Micro SIM cards to its customers.”
“This news comes after T-Mobile announced they have over one million unlocked iPhones on their network,” iDownloadBlog reports. “It has been over a month since Apple started selling unlocked iPhone 4s in the US that work on T-Mobile’s EDGE network.”
iDownloadBlog reports, “Since T-Mobile’s SIM card does work on the iPhone 4, this SIM will also work on the 3G iPad for data usage.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
3G iPad on edge? No thanks…maybe if it was $10 or
Less
For unlimited that is
Well, for those who hate annual contract ball-and-chain, this is an option to consider. Rather than paying AT&T (or Verizon) over $80 per month (with all taxes, fees and surcharges) and still getting a monthly data cap (plus paying for each of your texts), you could go for the $50 per month pre-paid T-Mobile plan, which gives you unlimited EDGE data, unlimited text and unlimited minutes, plus first 100MB of that data is available on speeds up to their “4G” network. Of course, that is irrelevant for iPhone users, due to the lack of support of T-Mobile’s frequencies on iPhones (other than EDGE). The difference between the $50 all-unlimited T-Mobile plan and AT&T’s subsidy plan (with limited minutes and data, and no texts) comes out to $820 for the life of the two-year contract. That is more than enough to buy a whole new unlocked iPhone.
In other words, if you are willing to put up with EDGE speeds, an unlocked iPhone plus T-Mobile’s prepaid plan is at least $30 less per month (when spread over two years).
Hell yeah. Anything to minimise my exposure to vampiric carriers that do nothing but suck your money and lifeblood and in return provide subpar service. I’d do it in a heartbeat if I wasn’t locked down in a two year contract. I think flexible payment plans are the way to go. You take the lumps upfront (the cost of an unlocked phone) but then you’re not ball and chained to the f%#^ing carriers for two years.
Besides to be honest I hardly ever enable 3G on my iPhone 4. Not if I don’t want to carry a charger with me all day or buy one of those funky Morphie juice packs. Leaving it on EDGE gives me voice calls, SMS and voice mail. Hell yeah that’s good enough for me. If I want to have anything to do with the Internet like check mail or surf the web I hop on a Wi-Fi hotspot. The carriers will suck you dry on the ‘subsidised plan.’
Smart and frugal …… Do same with my iPad …. Have AT&T $15 month plan and I will let it expire and use home and hot spots until I need on the road for biz and then sign-up for another month ….
Wrong math: that difference is $720 (subsidised AT&T plan, vs, non-subsidised unlimited T-Mobile plan).
Monthly difference is around $13 (plus whatever you must pay for all of your texts on AT&T).
I will be going over to Cumberland Mall,
to ask the T-Mobile Rep, if this info is True.
And if it is, i will be getting a Micro Sim.
Hey Eric T. Mole,
“U will Rue the day when u Stabbed Steve in the Back”
(Magenta Baby) !!!
Curiously enough, in America, the number of people who are on prepaid (contract-free) mobile service is negligible. With recent insurgence of carrier under the Sprint cover (Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Assurance Mobile), as well as others (Cricket, MetroPCS), there is some marginal awareness of the concept, but vast majority are still lured by $0 dumbphones (or sub- $200 smartphones) that they happily pay exorbitant monthly rates, often well beyond their two-year subsidy contract.
It is clear to anyone with basic math skills that a pre-paid plan with a carrier such as T-Mobile would be considerably less expensive than a comparable two-year contract plan of same (or similar) features. Unfortunately, most people simply don’t look beyond the $0 price tag. Just amazing how powerful (and totally misleading) the word “free” can be.
Although I don’t know the numbers, I get the impression anecdotally, that it may be a more significant number than you are suggesting.
I have unlimited data.
I have no plans of leaving att, especially for edge speeds-unlimited or not.
T-Mobile is “selling” the SIM card. They should give it to you for free, since you are asking for one so that you can pay them the ongoing monthly fee.
well atnt is buying them anyway so makes sense.
AT&T is still in the process of eating T-Mobile, right? If so, this is pretty much a non-story.
…and I’ll be forced to change carriers again to avoid AT&T; I used to be with Cingular. Where is Judge Greene when you need him?