Re: Moving with a new phone from one U.S. carrier to another

2014-04-19 Thread Wayne Merritt
Thanks all for your input. We ended up getting her a new iPhone 5C on ATT. She signed up for one of the new early upgrade plans, which means she will be eligible for the update in 18 months and have the phone all paidoff by then. I'm not sure how I feel about this, verses paying for the phone the

Re: Moving with a new phone from one U.S. carrier to another

2014-04-18 Thread Kayaker
Hi, There are now only two variations of the iPhone 5s. One that works on sprints network, and one that works on everyone else's. Therefore, I'd avoid using Sprint as your carrier unless you are 110% that you will be happy with Sprint. It's not enough to say CDMA anymore. Verizon is CDMA, yet

Re: Moving with a new phone from one U.S. carrier to another

2014-04-18 Thread Kelly Pierce
AtT and sprint have incompatible cell phone technologies. However, your wife could take her ATT phone and use it on T-Mobile. Your wife could use an iPhone 5 on the Ting service which is on the Sprint network. ting is a big discounter. Check out my December article on AppleVis called iPhone on

Moving with a new phone from one U.S. carrier to another

2014-04-16 Thread Wayne Merritt
Greetings. My wife will soon be getting a new iPhone 5C. Our current contract with ATT ends in September and we are thinking of switching to Sprint. Two questions here: First, if we buy my wife's new iPhone 5C from ATT, will we be able to take it with us to Sprint? I had heard from a coworker that

Re: Moving with a new phone from one U.S. carrier to another

2014-04-16 Thread Joseph Hudson
Hello Wayne, know if you buy a phone from ATT you will be locked to that carrier. However I believe if you buy from the Apple store your information is correct you will be a will to take it to a different carrier. Now however spring is a CD in a network and ATT is GSM. So consider that whenever