Hi Ray. If you are switching from a company like AT&T or T-Mobile to Sprint or Verizon then you will have to get a different phone. If you're going from AT&T to T-Mobile or T-Mobile to AT&T you will just have to make sure that your phone is unlocked.
Blessings, Brent Sent from my iPhone 5 > On Oct 31, 2013, at 12:15 PM, "Ray T. Mahorney" <mahorney....@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > I am reading this discussion with some interest. I am looking at switching > from ATT when I return > to the US. Will a change of carrier also necessitate a change of equipment? > I suspect it may but > help me out folks? > > > Ray T. Mahorney > WA4WGA > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Wayne Merritt > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 16:57 > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Switching Carriers, thanks to all > > Raul, > My wife and I are on a shared data plan, where we share 6 GB of data each > month. This is with AT&T. > Early in our time with this plan, we regularly used between 85 percent and > nearly all of the data. > Now we are better about splitting our time between wifi at work and our data > when at home or out and > about. We can still use at least two thirds of the data though. Our contract > runs out next September > and we are anxiously counting the months to when we can switch to Sprint for > the unlimited data. My > data use is mainly streaming media and downloading books and podcasts, and > hers is mainly Facebook > and playing online games with others. In addition, we are hoping to add an > iPad Mini to our plan > with Sprint, so I think the unlimited data will serve us well. From what I've > read and heard from > others, it seems like Sprint is at least $30 less, if not more, than the > other major U.S. carriers. > > Jmt, > Wayne > >> On 10/31/13, Raul A. Gallegos <r...@raulgallegos.com> wrote: >> Hi, one thing I'm curious about is how much data did you use with AT&T? >> The thing I've noticed, and have even seen statistics on, and >> participated in discussions on Lifehacker and similar is that when >> people have unlimited data it's more for peace of mind, rather than >> actually using it. I recently had 6gb of data on 4 phones with data >> share and upgraded over the summer to 10gb because I added a 5th phone. >> So, now I see it as each phone can use around 2gb of data to share it >> evenly. Even then, not all phones do, and for the last few months, >> barely 5 gb have been used. So, in a sense, we have unlimited data, >> but it's not written that way on paper. >> >> I think it's great that you moved to a new provider because of special >> incentives, but just know that in the end, people usually end up >> paying around the same when it comes to the big 3 or big 4 carriers in the >> states. >> >> -- >> Raul A. Gallegos >> Everyone's mature until the bubble wrap comes out. - Sheldon Cooper >> Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 >> >>> On 10/30/2013 4:13 PM, Brent Harbolt wrote: >>> Thanks to all who gave input on the difference between Sprint and >>> T-mobile. I have decided to leave A T & T after 12 years and have >>> decided to go with Sprint. The unlimited data is very appealing to me. >>> So, in about 8 weeks I will get my gold iPhone 5s. I will report back >>> to let everyone know my pros and cons with Sprint compared to A T & >>> T. I am sure hoping I won't be disappointed but if I am, I have 14 >>> days to go back to A T & T. Thanks again to all. 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