AT&T to Sell Contractless iPhones for $400 Premium

asLeepLessman said:
With T-Mobile, I do NOT need to run credit for a No-Contract sale.

With T-Mobile I don't even get a signal.

Then you need to move somewhere that you will get signal so that you can have the best. You must not live near the best. Move near the best.

🤣 Oh yes...pick up my family and move so I can have telephone service that obviously isn't as good as my current company! That is hilarious!

Here honey, we switched phone companies to the BEST...but make sure you never leave "THIS" area because it won't work over "THERE".

What, you drive over "THERE" to see your friend? Tell her to move, because over "THERE" you can't even call 911 if something happens.

you know what seems funny about this cconversation? in 99.9% of the cases if you can pick up an at&t signal you can also pick up a T-mo signal. because they are heavy roaming partners. Which really renders this whole thing pointless.

iamthephonemaster said:
you know what seems funny about this cconversation? in 99.9% of the cases if you can pick up an at&t signal you can also pick up a T-mo signal. because they are heavy roaming partners. Which really renders this whole thing pointless.

It should be, but its not, they don't roam within markets they both have, and I think that's insane. They will roam in area's where either have no presence.

thats fine, but if they both have a presence in my experience the difference in signal reception is negligible at best. I've worked for both companys and had both services and i can honestly say there wasnt a huge difference in my reception. obviously handset differences have to be taken into account but i never have been a place that i could get a t-mo signal that i couldnt also use a att phone roaming or not.which is the point i was making the idea that t-mo doesnt have as good of a signal as att is a matter of pure opinion 99.9% of the time. and vice versa. maybe back when t-mo only used the 1900 in the u.s there was a big difference but for the last say 5-6 years they have used 850 as well and then it didnt matter 99.9% of the time. so t...
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T-Mobile have several different ways of adding a customer to a line of service example "Flex Pay". So you dont really "have" to have a contract for the line of service. I bet though there is a different deal when it comes to the price of the phone.

On a NO Contract Flexpay plan you DO NOT need a social (which is required for credit checks). With a accepted I.D, the 1st months bill and $20 I can get you into a simple camera phone.

Yes, the price of the phones change at this point. Though that doesnt really play a part here. If this article had been about T-Mobile, it would mean that customers could now get the iPhone on a Month-to-Month plan. No Contract.

Thing is, you can do that now with ANY of T-Mobiles phones. Why you couldnt buy a iPhone without contract is beyond me. Money, no matter how much, is in deed money. They should have been doing this a long time ago.

*You know, your not the only person to say "T-Mobile's Signal Sucks". The thing is though, I have NEVER, not once...
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Because at this point it is only available with PostPaid services and those services require credit checks before activating a number at this point in time.

AT&T and VZW will do credit checks, they have lower problems with clients who have financial problems. They both make more per account then both Sprint and TMO. Agree with it or not, ain't gonna change their policy.

Thats a lie, sprints prepaid is boost mobile and im pretty sure that they make more money with prepaid than att and verizon

Kayslay34 said:
Thats a lie, sprints prepaid is boost mobile and im pretty sure that they make more money with prepaid than att and verizon

Do an internet search for the ARPU of the wireless carriers. Sprint had a net loss of over 1 billion dollar last year so I doubt they are making much money on anyone. Remember that the R in ARPU stands for REVENUE, and you can have all the revenue in the world but if your costs are too high it doesn't mean anything.

The reason they may require a deposit is because of bad credit. If you have good credit there's nothing to worry about! If you get approved with a 500 or 750 deposit, you did something bad, and you could go non-pay for almost 2 months, using expensiv...
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Thats also kind of false, i had a t-mobile postpaid account, i got it at walmart and they never ran my credit

Odd that they didn't, they always ran mine. Not to mention, even though it is contractless, you're still agreeing to some terms and conditions.

So to answer your question if you are on a Flex Pay account then they do not run your credit. Funny thing buy that I-Phone unlock it put it on T-Mobile slap T-zone on it and bam you have everything except Visual Voice mail on it without a contract! Sure they do charge you $5 more a month for Flex Pay but hey it sure beats that Monster deposit. 😁

Actually, all you do is have to give them a credit card, or bank account for automatic payment, and you don't pay the $5.00 flex pay. I have a G1 off contract, and its linked to a credit card, but, I always pay via my checking account beforehand.

If they truly did not run your credit, you are on some sort of prepaid or flexpay. Or, they asked you for your social but didnt tell you they are running credit.

All postpaid accounts with all carriers will require a credit evaluation.

Last time i checked Sprint had the highest ARPU per customer and has for a long time. So if you have bad credit and want a no commitment iphone better have about 1500 hundred ready and a bottle of vasoline.

What a freaking joke ATT is. Switch to sprint..better plans, better service