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Technically speaking, AT&T (right? isn't it AT&T?) has an exclusive agreement with Apple for use of iPhones, but I too have been wondering about unlocking one for use (I live in Asia too, and am moving back in July), because I've heard their coverage isn't great.
I will ask my brother for you. He's in the cellular business.
The one thing I'm not sure about is if your oversea iPhone will work here. For example, not all phones that work in the US will work overseas because they are incompatiable with the oversea network. So I'm not sure if the same is true for iPhone? I think you should be OK because I remember when FI's cousin went overseas all she had to do was change her plan.
You can go the ebay route and purchase an unlocked iphone off there and plug any providers sim card into it.
We have iPhones already and we are planning on unlocking them to use an American SIM card, but I was wondering if the phone companies have plans that ALLOW this?
I'm not 100% on this, but I don't think any Service Provider in the U.S. "allows" the use of unlocked iPhones because of AT&T's exclusivity contract with Apple. Rather, you sort of have to do it "under the radar" (get the plan through the provider, tell them you already have a phone, then somehow get the provider's SIM card to put into your phone - eBay most likely).
Be careful using an unblocked iphone here. when the iphone first came out a bunch of people were going on ebay to buy unlocked iphones. but as soon as they tried to download an app or something the iphone would freeze and be unusable from then on :/
i'm not sure if that is how it is now with the newer iphones, but i have heard the exclusivity contract with at&t is up after 2010.
My FI, who is a bit of a geek, not going to lie, recently read an article that this Spring, AT&T's contract for exclusitivity on the iPhone will be up, and Apple is currently developing one that would work for Verizon and the other companies that operate on a CDMA signal, as opposed to GSM, which AT&T use. So hopefully, the costs of contracts for an iPhone will go down once there is a bit of competition!
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FH and I live in Tokyo but we are moving to the States in October. We both loooove our iPhones, and we don't want to give them up- I mean they are our phones paid with our hard earned cash, work perfectly fine and all!
When we were in the UK this Christmas we noticed T-Mobile offers plan-only plans (SIM card only I guess). I don't know which company offers the iPhone in America but is there a plan like that? The companies are privy to unlocking phones in the UK so I figure there might be something along those lines in the good ole US of A? Thanks hive!(My friends have no idea but the hive is so clever!)