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Black_Mage
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Re: [iPhone] iPhone 5 - Most anticipated and expensive junk

How difficult was it to get the iPhone working on Straight Talk?

Asterix
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Nazareth, PA

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said by Black_Mage:

How difficult was it to get the iPhone working on Straight Talk?

Way too easy. You don't even need an unlocked iPhone. Since its the same network you just removed the AT&T micro-sim and pop in he ST micro-sim. A quick browse to a site which installs a simple ST certificate on it to change the APN on it. That's it !

I jailbroke it and did the APN change manually. More fun
kaila
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said by Black_Mage:

How difficult was it to get the iPhone working on Straight Talk?

Probably easy, but you'd have to live without LTE on Straight Talk as AT&T won't be sharing LTE with anybody for a very long time. If LTE's not important to you, no big deal. Otherwise, Sprint has begun opening up their LTE to MVNO's.

Asterix
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said by kaila:

said by Black_Mage:

How difficult was it to get the iPhone working on Straight Talk?

Probably easy, but you'd have to live without LTE on Straight Talk as AT&T won't be sharing LTE with anybody for a very long time. If LTE's not important to you, no big deal. Otherwise, Sprint has begun opening up their LTE to MVNO's.

I presume AT&T will open LTE to other MVNOs as soon as they are fully deployed. LTE is still in its infancy with respects to AT&T network. I give it a year before you can actually find LTE deployed in most areas.

Keep in mind, AT&T does a whole lot of business with MVNOs as a good chunk of their revenue is coming from MVNOs. Its better to lose a customer and see him got to one of thier own MVNOs (as money flows in even then but a bit less) than to lose a customer to Verizon or Sprint.