T-Mobile Update Gives Unlocked iPhone Owners LTE As Well As Visual Voicemail and MMS Services Our friends over at TMONews point out that T-Mobile will be sending out an over-the-air update from Apple that will provide LTE connectivity for unlocked iPhones on T-Mobile's network starting on April 5. According to the leaked internal screenshot, the over-the-air update will also provide those users with other awaited functionality like visual voicemail and MMS. Before announcing they'd finally offer the iPhone, T-Mobile courted unlocked iPhone owners who have been looking forward to this functionality for a while. The text of the document below: “The T-Mobile Carrier Update is a minor iOS software update that enables official iPhone support by T-Mobile. When installed, the software update enables a handful of capabilities like Visual Voicemail, MMS Settings and Network/Device optimizations that customers do not have access to today. On April 5, the software update will begin being pushed via OTA to all iPhone devices on the T-Mobile network with iOS 6.1.x or higher."
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  Steve BPremium
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Seattle, WA | Wait.... Didn't someone say that Apple was releasing a variant of the AT&T model specifically for T-Mobile and that the current ones couldn't be "updated" via software to work with T-Mobile?
I have to be missing something. LOL | |
|  | MRCUR
join:2007-03-09
Columbia, PA | Re: Wait.... The current GSM model iPhone 5 (sold by AT&T and by Apple as the unlocked model) can work on AT&T and T-Mobile's LTE networks. While the phone can work on AT&T's HSPA+ network, it cannot work on T-Mobile's (which uses AWS for both HSPA+ and LTE, AT&T only uses AWS for LTE along with 700b).
Because of this, the current GSM iPhone 5 (model A1428) has been running just fine on T-Mobile's EDGE network, and on HSPA+ where T-Mobile has reallocated 1900MHz spectrum to serve HSPA+. Otherwise, the current phone cannot connect to T-Mobile's HSPA+ running on AWS. The update coming tomorrow is a carrier profile update which controls the phone's APN, LTE connectivity, Visual Voicemail, etc.
Starting on the 12th, the model A1428 iPhone 5 will be able to work on AWS for both HSPA+ and LTE. This is not a change which can be completed through a software update to existing devices. | |
| | | Steve BPremium
join:2004-08-02
Seattle, WA | Re: Wait.... said by MRCUR:The current GSM model iPhone 5 (sold by AT&T and by Apple as the unlocked model) can work on AT&T and T-Mobile's LTE networks. While the phone can work on AT&T's HSPA+ network, it cannot work on T-Mobile's (which uses AWS for both HSPA+ and LTE, AT&T only uses AWS for LTE along with 700b).
Because of this, the current GSM iPhone 5 (model A1428) has been running just fine on T-Mobile's EDGE network, and on HSPA+ where T-Mobile has reallocated 1900MHz spectrum to serve HSPA+. Otherwise, the current phone cannot connect to T-Mobile's HSPA+ running on AWS. The update coming tomorrow is a carrier profile update which controls the phone's APN, LTE connectivity, Visual Voicemail, etc.
Starting on the 12th, the model A1428 iPhone 5 will be able to work on AWS for both HSPA+ and LTE. This is not a change which can be completed through a software update to existing devices.
Ahh. Ok. Thanks for explaining. | |
| | | BiggA
join:2005-11-23
EARTH | This is what I thought too, but I've seen multiple places that it still won't support AWS HSPA+, but then what is the update doing? People are claiming it enables Band IV LTE, which is BS, as that was enabled on day 1 for AT&T and Canadian carriers. | |
| | | | MRCUR
join:2007-03-09
Columbia, PA | Re: Wait.... No, it's not going to enable the use of AWS bands for HSPA+. This is not a "firmware update" as many places are incorrectly reporting.
This is simply an official carrier profile (IPCC) for T-Mobile US. It will configure T-Mobile's APN, MMS, VVM, etc. settings. | |
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| Re: Wait.... Yeah, I found out on MR that all it's doing is carrier settings, MMS, VVM, etc. People keep mentioning LTE, because apparently T-Mobile didn't have carrier settings to make LTE work with T-Mobile before, even though the unlocked phones previously supported Band IV LTE on AT&T and Canadian carriers. | |
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| said by MRCUR:The current GSM model iPhone 5 ... can work on ... T-Mobile's LTE networks.
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the current GSM iPhone 5 (model A1428) has been running just fine on T-Mobile's EDGE network, and on HSPA+ where T-Mobile has reallocated 1900MHz spectrum to serve HSPA+.
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Starting on the 12th, the model A1428 iPhone 5 will be able to work on AWS for both HSPA+ and LTE. This is not a change which can be completed through a software update to existing devices.
Is it accurate to say that this will have no effect on unlocked GSM iPhones brought over from AT&T such as the 3GS, 4, and 4S?
Where in the phone do I check to see if the upgrade has been pushed? Something in Field Test? Or elsewhere? Thanks.
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| | | |  tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
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kudos:1 | Re: Wait.... That's correct. This update has no effect on non-LTE iphones. | |
| | | | | | | Re: Wait.... It should still effect mms and visual voicemail. | |
| | | | | MRCUR
join:2007-03-09
Columbia, PA | That is incorrect. The carrier profile will still configure all of the T-Mobile specific network settings for iPhones using a T-Mobile SIM. This includes MMS, VVM, APN, etc. | |
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| | I'm very interested in HD voice I know t-mobile already has very good audio quality, but I hope HD voice becomes standard on every phone.
The official iPhone5 on T-mobile will support HD voice. | |
| |  morboComplete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
00000 | Re: I'm very interested in HD voice I, too, am interested in HD voice. I'm tired of the terrible call quality when talking on a cell phone. | |
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| | I'm super excited about this Mainly because I hate that with many updates I have to go in and manually do my MMS settings again and it takes awhile for them to get to working again. | |
| johnnn
join:2007-01-25
Ypsilanti, MI | anyone seeing this yet? Has anyone here with an unlocked iPhone on t-mo received the update yet? | |
| | | | Re: anyone seeing this yet? nope. im still waiting. | |
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