Why, when AT&T’s network sucks? iPhones purchased from Straight Talk piggyback Verizon for the purpose of use, but as with all CDMA iPhones, they’re SIM unlocked. So what’s the complaint here?
You missed the rest of the part leading up to it...
No LTE for the Verizon-based iPhones via Tracfone. Meanwhile, I get LTE via AT&T using Net10 with my factory unlocked iPhone 5.
Besides, AT&T doesn't suck like they used to. I rarely have issues with their service these days.
The iPhone 5c and 5s are capable of working on any US network as long as they're unlocked (and the provider allows use of equipment they didn't sell).
Not entirely correct. When an iPhone is officially unlocked, the CDMA portion of the radio is disabled. You can't get an unlocked iPhone to work with Verizon or Sprint or any CDMA MVNO that uses either of those two carriers.
A high end smartphone on these fly by night carriers is like eating spam on fine china and using silverware.
Well, that’s completely wrong. Not surprised–that’s how most of your posts go–just getting tired of it.
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You missed the rest of the part leading up to it… No LTE for the Verizon-based iPhones via Tracfone.
Well, if you’re buying it on these carriers, you don’t give a flying frick about AT&T’s LTE in the first place. If you did, you’d buy the iPhone tied to no carrier at all.
I used Straight Talk for a couple years with no issues. Then they went through a period where they started throttling people with no reasoning assigned to it. You couldn't try to figure out what caused it. You couldn't track your data. You couldn't do anything about it. The customer service would make all manner of promises and engage in all manner of lies.
I unlocked all our iPhones and took them to Tmobile. $130 a month gets everyone unlimited talk/text/data with the wife and I getting 2.5 gigs of 4G before throttling. The kids get half a gig each. It comes to $32.50 per smartphone which I consider completely reasonable.
I followed the same trajectory. Dumped AT&T when they started throttling my "unlimited" plan to unusable speeds after 2GB; I was paying $100/month for 1400 anytime minutes + 200 texts.
Switched to StraightTalk's $45/month plan for unlimited everything and loved it, but recently switched to T-mo for their $50/month unlimited postpaid plan, which is incredible. Although the data is limited to 500MB/month at full LTE speed, the throttling is most of the time gentle and unnoticeable, but the main benefit is the included international roaming: unlimited texting and (slow) data for free, and calling for $0.20/minute in 100 countries. Incredible. If you travel internationally like I do, this plan is revolutionary.
Well, that’s completely wrong. Not surprised–that’s how most of your posts go–just getting tired of it.
How's that completely wrong? Why pay good money on a high end smart to then go on some crappy welfare carrier? Even if the carrier does piggyback on one of the major ones you'll be treated like a 2nd class citizen, your phone will have low priority on cell sites.
Why pay good money on a high end smart to then go on some crappy welfare carrier? Even if the carrier does piggyback on one of the major ones you’ll be treated like a 2nd class citizen, your phone will have low priority on cell sites.
Probably because the carrier is the most expensive part of the purchase and the service is obviously reliable or they’d be bankrupt by now. Simple things to think about before taking a position.
Probably because the carrier is the most expensive part of the purchase and the service is obviously reliable or they’d be bankrupt by now. Simple things to think about before taking a position.
They won't go bankrupt with all those crappy cheap Android phones using them. Whatever happened to iPhone owners being more affluent? Anyone on public assistance can get a TracFone.
1. Nope.
2. Thanks for trying to move the goalposts.
I interact with those people first hand, all they care about is Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. They are not buying music, nor apps and contribute very little to the ecosystem.
I interact with those people first hand, all they care about is Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. They are not buying music, nor apps and contribute very little to the ecosystem.
Ah, anecdotes. I’ve a few of my own. Equally relevant, by the way. And yes, they do spend our money on apps and music.
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Why, when AT&T’s network sucks? iPhones purchased from Straight Talk piggyback Verizon for the purpose of use, but as with all CDMA iPhones, they’re SIM unlocked. So what’s the complaint here?
You missed the rest of the part leading up to it...
No LTE for the Verizon-based iPhones via Tracfone. Meanwhile, I get LTE via AT&T using Net10 with my factory unlocked iPhone 5.
Besides, AT&T doesn't suck like they used to. I rarely have issues with their service these days.
The iPhone 5c and 5s are capable of working on any US network as long as they're unlocked (and the provider allows use of equipment they didn't sell).
Not entirely correct. When an iPhone is officially unlocked, the CDMA portion of the radio is disabled. You can't get an unlocked iPhone to work with Verizon or Sprint or any CDMA MVNO that uses either of those two carriers.
Unlocked iPhones are GSM (SIM cards) or nothing.
Well, that’s completely wrong. Not surprised–that’s how most of your posts go–just getting tired of it.
Well, if you’re buying it on these carriers, you don’t give a flying frick about AT&T’s LTE in the first place. If you did, you’d buy the iPhone tied to no carrier at all.
Switched to StraightTalk's $45/month plan for unlimited everything and loved it, but recently switched to T-mo for their $50/month unlimited postpaid plan, which is incredible. Although the data is limited to 500MB/month at full LTE speed, the throttling is most of the time gentle and unnoticeable, but the main benefit is the included international roaming: unlimited texting and (slow) data for free, and calling for $0.20/minute in 100 countries. Incredible. If you travel internationally like I do, this plan is revolutionary.
How's that completely wrong? Why pay good money on a high end smart to then go on some crappy welfare carrier? Even if the carrier does piggyback on one of the major ones you'll be treated like a 2nd class citizen, your phone will have low priority on cell sites.
Probably because the carrier is the most expensive part of the purchase and the service is obviously reliable or they’d be bankrupt by now. Simple things to think about before taking a position.
They won't go bankrupt with all those crappy cheap Android phones using them. Whatever happened to iPhone owners being more affluent? Anyone on public assistance can get a TracFone.
Yet most of them have iPhones.
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And use them as glorified feature phones. So what?
1. Nope.
2. Thanks for trying to move the goalposts.
I interact with those people first hand, all they care about is Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. They are not buying music, nor apps and contribute very little to the ecosystem.
Ah, anecdotes. I’ve a few of my own. Equally relevant, by the way. And yes, they do spend our money on apps and music.