HunnieBunnie
Well-Known Member
I am always behind on the news… Just read this today. Has anyone done this, especially in the greater DFW area? Will Metro still allow BYOD.
T-Mobile: We're 'ahead of schedule' on CDMA-to-LTE MetroPCS migration - FierceWireless
I think the system that has prevailed so far (you have to buy a phone from the network provider you are going to use, and the phone you buy cannot be used on another carrier's network) is anti-consumer. I had ATT landline service since the mid 1970s. If I bought a desk phone or a wall phone from anyone else (ATT never used to sell their phones in the very old days), all I had to do was plug it into my phone jack to make it work. Why should mobile phones be so much different. Why should one not be able to buy a phone that is network compatible to various carriers and take it wherever one goes? I hope this makes sense. What I am trying to say is that I would like to purchase a mobile phone and use it, for example on MetroPCS, but if I decide later on that I want to use Verizon, for example, I can take my phone with me to Verizon and use it on their network.
At the rate the technology seems to be changing on these phones (as well as laptops, cameras, televisions, etc.), it seems to me that companies should make their money on providing the service without trying to squeeze consumers by insisting they buy their phones from the network provider and no one else. Does that make sense to anyone else?
By the way, Happy Easter everyone! : )
T-Mobile: We're 'ahead of schedule' on CDMA-to-LTE MetroPCS migration - FierceWireless
I think the system that has prevailed so far (you have to buy a phone from the network provider you are going to use, and the phone you buy cannot be used on another carrier's network) is anti-consumer. I had ATT landline service since the mid 1970s. If I bought a desk phone or a wall phone from anyone else (ATT never used to sell their phones in the very old days), all I had to do was plug it into my phone jack to make it work. Why should mobile phones be so much different. Why should one not be able to buy a phone that is network compatible to various carriers and take it wherever one goes? I hope this makes sense. What I am trying to say is that I would like to purchase a mobile phone and use it, for example on MetroPCS, but if I decide later on that I want to use Verizon, for example, I can take my phone with me to Verizon and use it on their network.
At the rate the technology seems to be changing on these phones (as well as laptops, cameras, televisions, etc.), it seems to me that companies should make their money on providing the service without trying to squeeze consumers by insisting they buy their phones from the network provider and no one else. Does that make sense to anyone else?
By the way, Happy Easter everyone! : )
