MetroPCS and Virgin Mobile USA Locked in Court Battle
Isn't that part of the risk...
Anyway, I'm a consumer kind of person, all I can say if the CONSUMER OWNS the handset, they can do with it as they please. I don't believe in contracts, I believe in earning business, not binding someone to a business.
I think the problem Virgin Mobile has is not Virgin Mobile customers fleeing to Metro PCS, but rather Metro PCS customers who damage or lose their phones taking Virgin Mobile phones to replace their own.
Also, if I am not mistaken, reflashing your phone voids any warranty...but who cars when yo...
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Likewise, if a company chooses to forgo contracts and ETFs, that's fine too. However, if they provide inexpensive phones that can just be flashed to work on another network, then that's their problem. So long as the customer has not violated anything in purchasing the phone (e.g. they have to buy a certain block of minutes), then they're free to do what they want.
Now the article mentioned something about trademark issues. I'm not sure what those would be unless MetroPCS representatives are actually advising p...
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Think of T-Mobile created a TmoFLASH service. TmoFLASH allows you to bring a (AT&T Branded) Iphone over to a T-Mobile store and they will unlock it so you can use it on T-Mobile.
Using a unlocked (AT&T Branded) Iphone on T-Mobile isn't a issue, but, T-Mobile advertising such a service would be.
I don't have to pay to advertise the phone, its capabilities or its pricing. AT&T wo...
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JeffdaBeat said:
AT&T will also unlock their own phones after a certain amount of time of using it as long as the phone is out of contract...don't know how that works though
After 90 days with account in good standing, AT&T will unlock on request.
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