Pardon my ignorance. Where do you go to purchase the unlocked iPhone?
Then, do you take it to, say, the AT&T store to have it activated with the carrier? I am currently using AT&T, but not under contract now. Crystal From: Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 10:34 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: where will you purchase the iPhone 5s Hi Ricardo, The advantage is that you don't have to stick with a main carrier. Here in Canada Telus which is one of the big 3 carriers (Telus, Bell and Rogers) also owns another provider called Koodo which is an MVNO using the exact same network. However, I am paying $56 for unlimited nation wide calling, unlimited texting, call display, voice mail and 2 Gb of data. The exact same thing from Telus would cost me $85, which is $29 more a month. Over 2 years this means I am paying $696 more, add to that the $399 for a 64 Gb iPhone and I would pay $1,095 for a phone which I can buy for $880 (it's $30 more in Canadian as in the States if you buy the phone outright and unlocked). On top of that I am on a month-to-month plan with Koodo and 10% of my monthly bill goes on a tab which at some point later I can apply against a new phone. I have been with Koodo for almost 2 years and as I only got on this promotion a bit into my initial contract which was about $10 more, I already have about $150 I can use against buying a phone and I get another $150 from Koodo against staying with them (if I left before this amount was paid back I'd have to pay it back, but at this point I see no reason why I should leave). If they come up ith a better promotion again this year before Christmas I can just call them up and they will put me on it. I am sure there must be MVNO's like that in the States where it does pay to bring your own phone. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 8:21 AM To: viphone Subject: Re: where will you purchase the iPhone 5s Hi, Unless you plan on switching networks in a 2 year span, how do you save money? I'm just assuming the majority of people in the U.S. with an iPhone are on the 4 big carriers. So, lets say I buy my phone off contract, I don't get a discount on my bill for using my phone on any of these networks so, where is the advantage? Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Sep 16, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Mike Arrigo <n0...@charter.net> wrote: > Not sure if I will get it, if I do it certainly will not be right away since I just got the 5 a few months ago. But, for me, the only way to go is to get an unlocked phone. Phones that are tied to a carrier are far too restrictive, you pay a bit more for a phone that is unlocked but it's well worth it. If you add up the cost of your monthly bill with a 2 year contract, it's actually higher. > Original message: >> Hi all. Just curious about what different people will do when it >> comes time to purchasing the iPhone 5s. Oh, and before I go on, just >> a point to note, the s in the name 5s is lower-case because if it's a >> capital S it looks too much like the number 5 visually, so Apple made >> it a small s on purpose. So, the correct way of writing it is iPhone >> 5s. Anyway, since you cannot pre-order the 5s, will you go to your >> local phone carrier store, or to the Apple store? I'm just curious as >> to whether people will go this Friday and wait long lines like Black >> Friday in the US, or if they will wait a few days until the lines get less. > >> I'm pretty excited myself because this will be my first time getting >> a new phone the day it comes out. In the past I've gotten it when it >> was an afterthought, or in the case of the 4s, when it had been out >> for about 4 months already. usually I wait in case there are initial >> problems found with the first batch of hardware, but this time around >> I'm diving in with my eyes closed as the saying goes. > >> Although all members are welcome to respond, I'm hoping that only >> people who are getting the 5s will respond to this thread since I'm >> not asking about whether it's a good idea, or if the 4s is better, or >> if we should stay with what we have. This is because there are other >> viphone threads which have already covered this. > >> Cheers. > >> -- >> Raul A. 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