Apparent T-Mobile security breach sees personal data revealed to other customers
In what appears to be the latest in a series of T-Mobile security breaches, customers are reporting that they are…
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T-Mobile trade-ins against iPhone 13 purchases being denied; carrier says it will resolve
Following problems with the Apple Watch $100 rebate program, customers are now reporting that T-Mobile trade-ins against iPhone 13 purchases…
T-Mobile announces new discounted Unlimited plan for people 55+
T-Mobile announced today a new promotion that gives users 55-years-old or older a discounted wireless plan. Starting August 9th, the…
T-Mobile wideband LTE now in 16 US markets; VoLTE now covers 100 million people
Amidst a plethora of swearing and shaming of its competing cellular carriers, T-Mobile CEO John Legere took the stage tonight…
T-Mobile encourages customers to switch with new phone buyback program, ETF credit
T-Mobile CEO John Legere announced today the company’s plan for Uncarrier 4.0 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Starting…
T-Mobile says don’t update, iOS 10 causing ‘connectivity issues’ for iPhone customers, fix coming soon [Updated]
Update: T-Mobile says the issues have been resolved. Here’s a support document regarding the situation. Good news! iOS 10 fix…
T-Mobile releases carrier update for unlocked iPhone 5s, enables LTE, improved battery performance, and Visual Voicemail support (Updated)
Update: You can also install this profile by visiting tmobile.com/isetup directly on your iPhone if your phone is on T-Mobile’s network but…
T-Mobile announces Jump, an anytime upgrade club for $10 a month
Just as several rumors suggested, T-Mobile has announced a new anytime upgrade plan at its press event today. ‘Jump’ will…
T-Mobile confirms iPhone users on next-gen network will keep legacy data plans
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Apple will not recieve follow on revenue from its new iPhone partners
Apple will not receive follow-on revenue from most of its new telecom partners according to SEC filing Form 8-K for APPLE IN. This is a very interesting development for several reasons. It means that Apple is stuck in their original agreements with AT&T, O2, Orange, Tmobile, etc. It also means that the old model wasn’t optimal for Apple and it is going for a new model where it is no longer taking a cut of monthly revenues.
The new carriers will be doing the writeoff themselves for the new countries. How this will affect Apple’s sales model is unclear. Will they sell them in the Apple stores for the $199 price? Will they still be Jailbreakable and/or downgradable?
AT&T giving free Wi-Fi to iPhone customers
As predicted in February, US iPhone subscribers are now getting free Wi-Fi Access at AT&T hotspots around the country including Barnes and Noble and Starbucks. This correlates to the plans offered in the UK by O2 and Tmobile in Germany.
Apparantly it isn’t terribly hard to spoof the iPhone interface and get your laptop on free WiFi either – as a Macrumors forum poster shows us. No announcement from AT&T or Apple has been made but expect one shortly.
Join in the Dutch iphone line
What is it like to wait on line in Holland for an iPhone? Look no further than Tmobile’s Webcam. http://hosting.dutchview.nl/t-mobile20080710/t-mobile.swf
party is over…
iPhone heading to EVDO/Verizon for 2009?
We’ve fielded a couple of tips (some more sketchy than others) about EVDO iPhones floating around Cupertino in the past, but today’s tipster seems a little bit more sure of himself. Besides having some Verizon insider credentials, he seems to know way too much about Verizon-Apple politics. According to him, Apple will be announcing iPhones for Verizon Wireless in 2009, perhaps as early Macworld 2009. Negotiations between Apple and Verizon are ongoing but they expect to hammer out agreements by the end of the year.
This isn’t a huge surprise for a number of reasons:
Google Android poses little threat to iPhone…yet
Today’s Tmobile-HTC-Google three way Android G1 event was watched intently by those in the technology community – especially by those with the defacto king of the mobile devices, the iPhone.
Well, the good news for iPhone users is that the G1 isn’t a finished product yet…you are still king of the mobile devices for the forseeable future. Most of the functionality of Google’s device is in the hands of 3rd party developers. It doesn’t mean that future hardware products won’t be more compelling. Gizmodo made a good table on the features of the leading smartphones, below:
Canada's Bell puts up iPhone website
For those Canadians who aren’t huge fans of Rogers, Bell has some good news for you today. They’ve put up an iPhone landing page for the upcoming launch. You can sign up to get more information when it is available. We’re trying to imagine a Tmobile/Verizon site like this down here. via BGR
Is the Tmobile Sidekick dead?
Microsoft, after over a week of data outage and admission that they’ve lost all of their customers’ data, might have just killed the Sidekick. That’s a shame because, before the iPhone, the Sidekick was the most revolutionary smartphone platform out there.
AT&T Microcells should go out to those in need. For free.
Gizmodo asks a pretty good question today. They wonder why AT&T is charging for their 3G Microcell adapter boxes when companies like Sprint and Tmobile often subsidize the cost for users in known dead spot areas. Microcells are similar to Wifi Access points except they broadcast a 3G signal like a 3G cell tower.
Subsidization really makes sense because the carrier is using the customer’s bandwidth to provide 3G access. Charging a monthly fee, in this case $20/month, for the customer to use their own bandwidth to support AT&T’s customers seems like just a bit of a dick move.
Maybe AT&T should be paying people to use their microcells?
Future iPhone/iPod Update to Allow Seamless Websurfing in Starbucks?
Add this to the 99% speculative category…
Starbucks has a nice little thing going. And it isn’t just caffeine addiction or 50 Million songs to give away. They have over 10,000 locations in the US alone and are filling each one with Wifi access from Tmobile. That is a lot of coverage…and in very important, high trafficked areas like malls, city streets, and college campuses. You could almost call them a “wifi telecom”
iPhone Announced in Germany, No Surprises
Apple today announced their alliance with German (former) state telco Tmobile for the German market. Tmobile will have EDGE on 100% of its network by the end of 2007 (oh and probably some 3G too?) and of course it has a bazillion Wifi hotspots around the World. No mention of whether or not the iPhone plan with Tmobile will include access at any of them like the UK’s O2’s offering.
The price is a respectable
Europe Going iPhone…Soon.
With Apple set to announce it’s European iPhone strategy later this week, a lot of questions still remain on the specifics of the deal. What we know:
- The carriers will be O2 in the UK, Tmobile in Germany, and Orange in France. Spain’s Telefonica might also pick up the device because of the O2 relationship.
- Even with the rampant SIM hacking, the devices will be locked to the carriers initially. Different Laws in Europe REQUIRE that device manufacturers open up their devices after 6 months of use. This might not be a huge issue as the phones are likely to be sold with 2 year plans.
- Apple’s UK announcement will likely open the iPod Touch floodgates as the employees have been asked to stay late the day of the announcement.
What we’d like to know:
British iPhone on O2 Announcement Next Week
It looks all but certain that Apple will announce its first European iPhone carrier next week. And some bad news for y’all across the pond (or Channel as it were), it is not going to be carried by Vodafone who is currently launching an iTunes competitor (and whose CTO recently publicly dissed the iPhone). It will most likely be carried by O2 only.
It remains to be seen what effect, if any, the recent iPhone hacking will have on the selection of iPhone carriers. Apple will probably have to secure its iPhone OS from these hacks if it expects to keep exclusivity contracts with the vendors going.
European iPhones Coming. Rocking the 16GB 3G Specs
MacBidouille, an excellent French-language Macintosh site, has posted what they say is a leaked advertisement for the Tmobile iPhone in Germany. Of note, the specs indicate 3G speeds and a 16GB capacity. These specs are in line with our reports from August from our Orange (France Telecom) sources. They also stated that the Germans and British would get the iPhones slightly before the French were ready to roll it out.
While this image could easily be a fake (they at one point call it an iPod in the advertisement), the specs are likely to be realistic as the next iteration of iPhone will likely match the iPodtouch‘s 16GB capacity. Additionally, with 3G phones all but ubiquitous in Europe, it would be an embarrassment for Apple to release a EDGE-only phone. The price point also make sense when one takes into account the Euro/Dollar exchange rate and the absurd VAT Tax rates that add close to 20% of the cost…
Apple Expo Paris to be Launchpad for European iPhones, TV Shows
Update – we just got some new intel from Orange
Bet you forgot about ol’ Apple Expo Paris didn’t you? Well, from September 25-29th, 2007, Paris will be LE place to be for Apple aficionados the world over. The Fall event is held at a perfect time for a European iPhone announcements in front of the home crowd – a month ahead of the release.
Additionally, the Eurocentric crowd will likely get their own version of country-specific television shows on iTunes and an expanding iTunes Movies coverage.
Jonny Evans over at Macworld.co.uk has announced that both Vodafone and O2 would be carrying the iPhone in the UK – something we voiced a few months back. The release date has been speculated to be
iPhone 1.0 3G to be released November 1st according to Washington Post
The Washington Post is reporting that TMobile will carry the iPhone in Germany on November 1st. This is big news for a couple of reasons.
It means that Apple is probably going with the “National Carriers” AT&T in the US (used to be a monopoly), Tmobile is Deutsche Telekom – the former government telecom. So from this we can likely assume that Vodafone (or more likely O2) in the UK and Orange in France will also be exclusive iPhone carriers
