kapil
The Kapil
join:2000-04-26
Chicago, IL
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Re: Wireless Industry Is Correct
said by pnh102  :You don't like nickel and dime billing? Get a pre-paid phone. You don't like restrictive user agreements or contracts? Pay the full price for your phone and you won't have to deal with one. You don't like how a GSM-based phone is locked to a particular provider? You can pay someone to unlock it for you. Most carriers won't allow fancy services like video, data, blackberry etc. on prepaid plans....vanilla voice services only for the most part.
Most carriers also won't allow you to sign up without an agreement on a post-pay plan even if you pay the full price on the equipment.
Finally, it is becoming increasing harder to "unlock" phones. T-Mobile is pretty good about it, AT&T not so much...as seen with the iPhone. Verizon even changes the UI so you can't really use the phone elsewhere....besides most CDMA providers won't provision a phone whose ESN number is not in their system as one of "theirs". |
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
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| said by kapil :Most carriers won't allow fancy services like video, data, blackberry etc. on prepaid plans....vanilla voice services only for the most part. Why is this a problem?
said by kapil :Most carriers also won't allow you to sign up without an agreement on a post-pay plan even if you pay the full price on the equipment. But again, you can circumvent this with a prepaid phone.
said by kapil :Finally, it is becoming increasing harder to "unlock" phones. The iPhone was unlocked in hours. The level of difficulty in unlocking a phone is irrelevant provided that someone can do it.
said by kapil :besides most CDMA providers won't provision a phone whose ESN number is not in their system as one of "theirs". And if that is important to you, you can currently use a GSM provider which doesn't have such a restriction.
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dnoyeB
Ferrous Phallus
join:2000-10-09
Southfield, MI
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T-Mobile's fav 5 requires a modified UI by contract. Of course it works with older phones that do not have the modified UI. But if you read the contract when you sign up for fav 5, it will state that you MUST have a fav 5 enabled phone...
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dnoyeB
"Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard. " Ecclesiastes 9:16
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kapil
The Kapil
join:2000-04-26
Chicago, IL
| If you sign up for a myfaves calling plan, t-mobile requires that you buy a compatible phone. While the feature will work anyway, you won't get the benefit of the UI...and t-mobile only does it to reduce support headaches.
The t-mobile myfaves UI, while built into the compatible phones, is not apparent/active until a subscriber who has a myfaves plan inserts his sim card into the device....until such time, the myfaves capable device looks and works the same as its non my-faves compatible counterparts. |
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