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Cdma 4g sim card

B2H

B2H

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Hey, I have the Huawei Premia and I need a new sim card for it. Does metro stores still sell the sim card for my phone?
 
Yeah I know... I was kinda in a panic mode lol. The closest store to me is closed on Sundays so I guess I'll have to wait until tomorrow to actually know. I'm thinking they should because the Premia came out in April and I don't see why they'd toss out the cdma sim cards if people are still using CDMA phones.
 
Shabbypenguin said:
be clear about you needing a uicc/lte card and not sim card. many store employees would get confused i imagine...
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That's why I decided to go ahead and take a trip to a corp store instead of doddling around with the authorized dealers... They know nothing about the new phones they're selling now, let alone a phone that they carried 7 months ago.
 
Whoever is in charge of employee training on the Mothership should be crucified.

I am not sure I have seen Any Other customer no service reps who know Less about what their company has and doesn't have than the average Metro employee.

I even went into a the Corp store in G-ville on a Sat night 2 months ago. 2 guys in there, store empty as the tombs. They actually looked bored as hell. I asked if they had any phones hooked up to the new network. Nope. Bingo, scratch one sale.

2 Auth dealers near me have clerks with barely even Smart phones, all on CDMA. No GSM phones activated at all in the store.

Sure Metro has advertised the hell out of the new network, then fell right on their faces by having basically A Total Vacuum on it AT their stores.

They solidly Deserve to still have HALF their customers straggling on CDMA at the beginning of next year.

Bruce in Ocala, Fl
 
OcalaFlGuy said:
Whoever is in charge of employee training on the Mothership should be crucified.

I am not sure I have seen Any Other customer no service reps who know Less about what their company has and doesn't have than the average Metro employee.

I even went into a the Corp store in G-ville on a Sat night 2 months ago. 2 guys in there, store empty as the tombs. They actually looked bored as hell. I asked if they had any phones hooked up to the new network. Nope. Bingo, scratch one sale.

2 Auth dealers near me have clerks with barely even Smart phones, all on CDMA. No GSM phones activated at all in the store.

Sure Metro has advertised the hell out of the new network, then fell right on their faces by having basically A Total Vacuum on it AT their stores.

They solidly Deserve to still have HALF their customers straggling on CDMA at the beginning of next year.

Bruce in Ocala, Fl
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My thoughts exactly. The least they can do is find people who are phone techs and not just Joe that took a two day training class with a book of only the latest phones they're selling.
 
A few days ago, a guy came in wanting to get a UICC for a used Premia, so we told him to go to the Corp store. He was unhappy with the idea of traveling (on foot/bicycle) several miles away, so we further explained the differences between the the types of cards, and that we did not have the type he needed.

This morning, he came back in just to mock us :eviltongue:: instead of going to the Corp store as we advised, he got a MetroPCS SIM from somewhere else and paired it to his Premia -- voila! It worked! :dong:

In disbelief, I opened the back to confirm that it was, indeed, a GSM SIM (purple decor; ID's last digit "F") and not a CDMA UICC (orange decor; ID all numerals). Still full of doubt, I looked up his account info: there, with my own eyes, I verified his SIM's correct ICCID and his Premia's correct IMEI -- on the "GSM50" service plan, though it should say "TTD50-4G"! :hmmmm2:

Anyone else on here with similar experiences or was this a fluke?
 
All UICC cards are not necessarily SIM cards.

But all SIM cards are a UICC card.

I don't see why a SIM card can't carry the required Metro PCS information, but maybe someone can elaborate.

UICC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

edit: Furthermore, the UICC card that's activated in my Motion 4G successfully gets my N7 LTE online, but since it's not a SIM card, and there's no 3G network data on it, it won't fall back to GSM like it will with the T-Mobile SIM card installed.
 
B2H said:
That's why I decided to go ahead and take a trip to a corp store instead of doddling around with the authorized dealers... They know nothing about the new phones they're selling now, let alone a phone that they carried 7 months ago.
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We usually know more then the corporate stores thank you very much, maybe not in your neck of the woods, but around here, we usually know way better.
 
the hulk said:
We usually know more then the corporate stores thank you very much, maybe not in your neck of the woods, but around here, we usually know way better.
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That is great you have an eye for talent I know a few mom and pop guys and girls who are just pretty faces. when a metro employee buys the white s3 because it is white... Not knowing the end of CDMA soon well Ha ok
 
DirtyDee said:
That is great you have an eye for talent I know a few mom and pop guys and girls who are just pretty faces. when a metro employee buys the white s3 because it is white... Not knowing the end of CDMA soon well Ha ok
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But why should these mom and pop guys and girls who are just pretty faces cater to the typical online poster?
 
telegraph said:
But why should these mom and pop guys and girls who are just pretty faces cater to the typical online poster?
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I don't expect them too, just saying I don't trust their judgment. What I so expect is employees that know what they are selling rather than pushing the most expensive. Reminds me of GameStop employees that can tell when I walk in the door not to waste my time with pushing madden and call of duty, but listen first and point me in the direction of shin megami tensei.
 
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