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What Cellular Provider to use for new service. - n5psm@arrl.net - 05-09-2021
What cell phone provider can anyone recommend?
I want a new services as I only have my company phone (work)
When I went to Verizon and AT&T they both said my B1 was not compatible with their network.
....what am I doing wrong
73 de N5PSM, David
RE: What Cellular Provider to use for new service. - KC1JMZ - 10-25-2021
OK, so I went thru a similar thing with Verizon. My first visit, I got a guy that understood what he was doing and he wasn't put off by the fact that the IMEI number wasn't supported because I went in with the SIM from my iPhone in my B1 and it was working. So he did some magic and gave me a new SIM and the phone was working when I left the store. A few days later I got a message from Verizon saying that they were turning service off. So, I went back to the Verizon store and got less technically inclined CSRs who told me that my phone was "not supported" "3G only" and other crap. After getting the run-around for an hour, I left. I saw an article somewhere (here?) that recommended Mint as known to work. So I went online and ordered a Mint SIM. Worked first time and even apparently properly identified the phone as a "Runbo One Touch X".
So, Mint. Recommended. They are an MVNO for T-Mobile.
/Ted (waiting patiently for Verizon to get their crap together)
RE: What Cellular Provider to use for new service. - kz4ra - 10-25-2021
(10-25-2021, 05:10 PM)KC1JMZ Wrote: OK, so I went thru a similar thing with Verizon. My first visit, I got a guy that understood what he was doing and he wasn't put off by the fact that the IMEI number wasn't supported because I went in with the SIM from my iPhone in my B1 and it was working. So he did some magic and gave me a new SIM and the phone was working when I left the store. A few days later I got a message from Verizon saying that they were turning service off. So, I went back to the Verizon store and got less technically inclined CSRs who told me that my phone was "not supported" "3G only" and other crap. After getting the run-around for an hour, I left. I saw an article somewhere (here?) that recommended Mint as known to work. So I went online and ordered a Mint SIM. Worked first time and even apparently properly identified the phone as a "Runbo One Touch X".
So, Mint. Recommended. They are an MVNO for T-Mobile.
/Ted (waiting patiently for Verizon to get their crap together)
I ordered a sim from t-mobile, their cheapest prepaid plan and it worked fine
RE: What Cellular Provider to use for new service. - K7BBS - 02-08-2022
I found it also hard to convince them I started with US Cellular as I have AT&T for my iPhone and US Cellular has strong coverage in the mountains here.. They told me that their network does not support LTE of which I need to look into to see if that's really true. So I then went to T-Mobile and they started off saying that they could only sell me a Data plan for tablets or iPads.. and I said that would defeat have of the features of the device like phone or texting and I gave him that are you kidding me look. He then told me that they could sell me a pre-paid sim and I went with that.
When I first put it in my B1+ every thing that went over the cell data the inbound voice sounded like slow mo... but yet I could do a speed test and there was plenty of speed for voice. but after a day or two and a few reboots... that problem went away.. strange.. I'm not real happy with T-Mobile but it's only a prepaid card and when it runs out I will try another service.
K7BBS
running RFinder B1+ with Version 12
RE: What Cellular Provider to use for new service. - philztoy - 02-10-2022
I ended up with T-mobile and google Fi (which is also T-mobile I think).