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T-Mobile carrier update coming this week to enable LTE on existing iPhones

By Derek Kessler, Tuesday, Apr 2, 2013 a 6:32 pm

While nearly two million people have brought iPhones onto T-Mobile's network despite the carrier not offering the iPhone until the 12th of April, they've been saddled with service that's not as good as it could have been. According to TmoNews, that's set to change on April 5th, when T-Mobile plans to push a carrier update to iPhones on the network that will bring official visual voicemail and MMS to such devices as well as enabling LTE access for unlocked iPhone 5 users.

The Verizon iPhone 5's SIM slot is unlocked, as it turns out

By Simon Sage, Friday, Sep 21, 2012 a 5:05 pm

Some preliminary tests are showing that users can pop an AT&T or T-Mobile SIM card into a Verizon-branded iPhone 5, and you can get HSPA+ service as normal (assuming, of course, the GSM SIM is active). This is great news for T-Mobile customers that worried about having to unlock the SIM slot on their shiny new iPhone 5, as well as frequent flyers that regularly swap out SIM cards for local service. You can always shave down your own nano SIM cards, though it's generally not recommended.

Reminder: the iPhone 5 needs a new Nano-SIM card, it will not work with your existing SIM

By chrissyboy6969, Friday, Sep 14, 2012 a 4:11 am

If you managed to survive this morning’s pre-order and grabbed yourself a shiny new unlocked iPhone 5 direct from Apple, you need to start thinking about SIM cards. The iPhone 5 doesn’t have the traditional, ubiquitous Nini-SIM card like the iPhone 3GS, it doesn’t even have the relatively new Micro-SIM card like the iPhone 4 either -- it uses a brand new SIM card which is called the Nano-SIM.

iPhone 5 European pricing revealed, 16GB model suffers price increase

By chrissyboy6969, Thursday, Sep 13, 2012 a 2:06 pm

Apple has now revealed the pricing for an off contract SIM free iPhone 5 in various European countries and if you thought last year’s prices were expensive this year will see those costs go up again. Last year Apple sold the iPhone 4S 16GB version in the UK for £499.00, this year the iPhone 5 16GB model will be sold for £529.00; that’s an increase of around 6%.

T-Mobile welcomes unlocked AT&T iPhone owners with cheap family plans

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Apr 9, 2012 a 7:48 pm

Though T-Mobile remains the only major carrier in the US without an official iPhone in their lineup, now that AT&T is officially unlocking eligible, off-contract iPhones, T-Mobile is welcoming them with open arms -- and cheap family plans. T-Mobile already had over 1 million unofficially unlocked iPhones on their network, and now that people can run iPhones without having to worry about jailbreak and software updates, it looks like they expect those numbers to rise.

iPhone 4S demand finally satisfied, all models now in stock for next day delivery

By chrissyboy6969, Tuesday, Jan 31, 2012 a 3:39 am

Apple has finally caught up with the huge demand for the iPhone 4S. For the first time since its iPhone 4S launch way back< in October/a>, all models of the iPhone 4S are now shown as in stock.

No matter which model you go for, 16GB, 32GB or 64GB or which carrier you choose from AT&T, Verizon or Sprint, they are all in stock. Even the unlocked and contract free models too.

Sprint and Verizon to offer iPhone 4S unlocked for use overseas with a micro-SIM card

By chrissyboy6969, Wednesday, Oct 12, 2011 a 5:40 am

Sprint and Verizon will offer the iPhone 4S with an unlocked micro-SIM card slot according to information given to Macworld. The iPhone 4S is the first iPhone that can be classed as a world phone which means it has a GSM and CDMA radio. This is particularly useful if travelling overseas where CDMA networks are few and far between.

Apple to offer unlocked GSM iPhone 4S starting in the US from November

By chrissyboy6969, Friday, Oct 7, 2011 a 9:15 am

Apple will offer the iPhone 4S in an unlocked flavor starting from November in the United States. This is nothing new for most other countries who can already pre-order an unlocked iPhone 4S today.

T-Mobile addresses the iPhone (or lack thereof) to customers

By Andrew Wray, Tuesday, Sep 27, 2011 a 6:23 pm

In a company blog post earlier today, Cole Brodman, Chief Marketing Officer for T-Mobile USA, told customers that they were interested in offering a "no-compromise iPhone experience" on their network, but offered little details on the negotiations between the carrier and Apple.

T-Mobile USA targeting unlocked iPhone, iPad owners

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Jul 22, 2011 a 3:51 pm

Sure, AT&T might be trying to buy T-Mobile US, and sure, T-Mobile got into the microSIM game before AT&T and Apple made them famous, but it looks like now T-Mo is actually going after iPhone and iPad owners before the former, using the latter.