T-Mobile UK uses iPhone 3G to court high-spending customers
What. The. Hell. Apparently T-Mobile UK has gotten into the liquor cabinet and is feeling plenty brave. Word has spread that Tmo has been selling unlocked iPhone 3G handsets to high-spending customers despite the fact that O2 has the exclusive rights to the iPhone in the UK. It appears that the only criteria one has to meet to be offered an unlocked iPhone 3G is to have a monthly bill of £75 and up, threaten to walk and catch the right rep on a good day. To be clear, it doesn’t appear that what T-Mobile is doing is illegal (the devices are likely coming from Germany where T-Mobile is the exclusive carrier of the iPhone), although we should point out that it does know what it is doing is sketchy as it is cautious to limit sales of the iPhone to around 150 units per week so as not to raise the ire of Apple (you know, lest Steve Jobs fly over to London and pour castor oil down the throat of T-Mobile UK’s CEO). Smart thinking.
Vodofone was doing the same thing in Germany, but then T-Mobile got a court order to stop it. Now it seems they are doing it themselves.
That is Awesome!
Can you run an unlocked iphone here, in the states on t-mo (the only other gsm- worth mentioning)?
Im currently running a 3G on tmo, running it on a $20 blackberry plan, everything works except for 3G. Goodtimes
I have run the 3G on att, tmobile, and now cinci bell were I get piggybacked att 3G for half the price. Viva freedom.
Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Cincinnati United States
Cool, I’ve been using my iPhone on T-Mo for a year. $10 a month for data beats $30!
I’m currently a T-Mo customer and have twice threatened to pay an ETF (two separate occasions) to leave T-Mo and go to AT&T for the iPhone 3GS. Not only did they find a way to lower my monthly bill by $45, they also gave me discounted pricing on a BlackBerry Curve 8900 and a myTouch 3G. But only after they assured me that the iPhone 3GS could be used on a G1/myTouch plan and supported. They even sent me to what seemed like a special retention department for customers who were thinking about defecting to an iPhone 3GS.
I apologize for the novel. I was just trying to say that selling them unlocked in the stores albeit quietly, seemed like the next logical step and I wish they were doing it here in the States.
@StevenGlansburg, Wasn’t roaming on AT
NVM. The BGR iPhone app has been messing up
Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Plano United States
If Apple didn’t know….They sure know now lol.
Buy.com sells factory unlocked iPhone 3Gs and 3GSes. Why can’t a carrier, who sells phones daily to the general public, do the same?
re: http://www.buy.com/prod/apple-iphone-3gs-32gb-never-locked-legally-unlocked-gsm-cell-phone/q/loc/111/listingID/47299532/211493259.html?adid=17653
This was much funnier when I thought it was T-Mobile U.S.
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