The benefit Sieghard of locking phones is the great deals companies offer to attract new business. They can offer hundreds of dollars off the cost of a new iPhone. Often these deals require someone to sign up for a pricy phone plan they do not need. Over a two or three-year period, it would be a lot cheaper to pay full price for the iPhone from Apple and sign up for service from a MVNO. At other times, the service can be reasonably priced and the iPhone deal is lucrative. Consumers need to not just look at the phone discount but the price of the service as well. Overall, when companies compete for our business, we win.
Kelly On 10/20/23, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > And these days that is so terrible and I really wonder what good they think > it does. > Glad our government put a stop to this many years ago now. > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of > joseph hudson > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2023 11:16 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Question: Is Anyone Using two eSIM Cards in an iPhone? > > Hello, T-Mobile, and AT&T, are the only ones that still sell locked phones > >> On Oct 19, 2023, at 11:42 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: >> >> Hello Kathy, >> >> If you have a phone which is locked to AT&T then you will not be able to >> have a second SIM in the phone from a different provider. >> I am in Canada, but do carriers in the United States even still lock >> phones these days? >> Here in Canada that has been illegal for some years now and it's really a >> mute point since a locked phone does nothing to force you to stay with one >> carrier; contracts do that. If you buy an iPhone for example from AT&T and >> you have a contract in place where you pay a certain amount each months to >> pay off the phone, then you can't really leave that obligation whether the >> phone is locked or not unless you paid out whatever balance is remaining. >> I also understood that even if you are in a contract of some sort in the >> past and you had your phone for a certain amount of time, like 3 or 6 >> months, you could then request for the phone to be unlocked. Locking >> phones is the most ridiculous thing a carrier can do if they in fact still >> do it given how many people want to travel these days and potentially use >> a SIM from a provider in a different country for a few weeks. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of >> Kathy Brandt >> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2023 9:19 AM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Cc: M. Taylor <markthew...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: Question: Is Anyone Using two eSIM Cards in an iPhone? >> >> I had asked yesterday: does the phone have to be unlocked in order for you >> to use two cards like that? >> >> >> >>> On Oct 19, 2023, at 11:27 AM, Cory Jackson <coryl.jack...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am currently using 2 ESims on my iPhone 14. >>> >>> You can have them both active at once. They are from 2 different >>> providers. You can program them both to ring differently and play >>> different message alert tones. I can see both connections at the top. >>> >>> It is working very well. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Cory Jackson >>> >>> >>>> On 10/18/2023 1:21 PM, M. Taylor wrote: >>>> Hello Everyone, >>>> >>>> Is anyone currently using two eSIM cards on an iPhone? 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