For those who travel internationally, it’s well known how much a micro-SIM card can help in terms of roaming fees. But to be able to use a micro-SIM, a carrier must first unlock the slot.
In the case of Sprint’s iPhone 4S – there has been a lot of strange talk going on.
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Sprint recently confirmed that it is indeed planning to offer unlimited data for the iPhone, once it finally launches on the carrier. This sets it as the only carrier to continue to offer unlimited data for the device.
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It really is amazing when you realize that Apple’s leverage on mobile phone carriers is so great that even a large company like Sprint can be made into committing to buy $20 Billion worth of iPhones just to have access to the device.
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Just days after it was reported that Apple would be blacking out employee vacation requests for October 9th-15th, BGR reports that AT&T and Sprint also issued out blackouts on retail employee vacations for the first two weeks of October.
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Obviously, Sprint is quite against the planned merger of AT&T with T-Mobile. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse has been especially critical of the idea, stating that the deal would make an uneven playing field for competitors – which would be bad for consumers.
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A while ago, we reported that Sprint was going to be one of the carriers to receive the iPhone 5 when it comes out. Both Verizon and AT&T will also be getting the new iPhone when it comes out, but Sprint is the only carrier offering an unlimited data plan.
Now, a new report has come via SprintFeed – saying that while sprint will continue to offer the unlimited plan, it will be restricting the Mobile Hotspot Data add-on to 5GB of data per month.
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According to 9to5Mac, Apple has been collaborating with Sprint to bring the iPad to Sprint’s data network. In fact, the report claims that the two companies have already finished with the device, and it is now “ready to launch”.
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SprintFeed has recently found even more information pointing towards a late September-early October iPhone 5 launch.
This time, it comes in the form of an internal message by Sprint stating something about a blackout due to a major phone launch on September 30th-October 15th.
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Bloomberg recently affirmed statements by the Wall Street Journal which claimed that Sprint would start offering the iPhone 5 with an unlimited data plan next month when the device is to come out.
This is different from Verizon and AT&T, carriers that do not plan on offering unlimited data for the device.
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Yesterday, we reported how it was rumored that Sprint would get the iPhone 5 along with AT&T and Verison once the phone is released.
Now, it seems that a new rumor has surfaced, claiming that T-Mobile will get the iPhone 5 along with the other carriers as well.
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AT&T and Verizon won’t be the only carriers to first introduce the new iPhone 5 anymore. The Wall Street Journal reports that Sprint is also receiving the privilege of unveiling America’s most awaited smartphone when it comes out.
The report also states that the iPhone 5 will indeed be released mid-October, which is actually a bit later than some other trusted reports we have heard.
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Since the iPhone’s inception, the fact that it was only available on certain carriers as actually held back its success. This year, Apple added Verizon as a new iPhone carrier, alongside AT&T, the only other US carrier that sold the iPhone. Many people on Sprint wish they could have an iPhone on the third carrier, and there have been rumors that the iPhone 5 will be compatible with Sprint’s network as well.
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Sprint, the large U.S. telecommunications company, recently reported their quarterly earnings, and they could have been better. The company announced a larger-than-expected loss for the second quarter of 2011 yesterday, and as a result, shares fell more than 15%. The company added 1.1 million new customers, but lost over 100,000 of them, a portion of which switched to Verizon or AT&T.
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Yesterday, we reported that AT&T, the carrier company for iPhones, activated 3.6 million iPhones in the second quarter of 2011. Now, Verizon has also released its second quarter results, reporting 2.3 million iPhones activated. Not bad, but still 1.3 million less than AT&T. This is an impressive quarter of Apple, with nearly 6 million iPhones activated.
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A new report says that the AT&T’s Mobility division has now been testing the unreleased but much-rumored iPhone 5 since July 6th. This could indicate an earlier release than we expected. All of the rumors indicate a September release along with iOS 5, but Cult of Mac believes it’s possible for the new phone to be released by the end of this month.
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When we first released news back in 2010 about Verizon being a carrier for the iPhone 4 starting January 2011, the only available “legit” carrier was AT&T. Not even half a year has passed, but this new carrier support has claimed almost a third of all iPhone 4 market share. That is, one out of every 3 iPhone 4s are using Verizon as their carrier. A graph from the analysts over at Localytics shows that Verizon iPhone 4 market share has been steadily increasing since launch, and is now just about to hit 33%.
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