Apple will seed iPhone owners using T-Mobile a carrier update that will enable Visual Voicemail, MMS Settings, and possibly LTE support on April 5th, according to a notice obtained by TMONews.
The T-Mobile Carrier Update is a minor iOS software update that enables official iPhone support by T-Mobile. When installed, the software update enables a handful of capabilities like Visual Voicemail, MMS Settings and Network/Device optimizations that customers do not have access to today. On April 5, the software update will begin being pushed via OTA to all iPhone devices on the T-Mobile network with iOS 6.1.x or higher.
A method of enabling LTE for jailbroken device owners has already been detailed; however, official support from Apple would be a much appreciated by customers.
This is an older post but I can say that you can only use FaceTime over cellular with AT&T if you have a mobile share plan or of you have jail broken your iPhone. I have been a customer service manager for AT&T for 7 years
I Have At&t and I don't have the Ability to get Facetime over Cellular HENCE my previous comments. If you've had a Contract Since Before the iPhone4...then you KNOW.....you won't GET that unless you give up your unlimited data & Unlimited Voice & Opted for their NEW TIER plans. This is Not fair to those such as myself whom may not want those plans..hence why a petition was sent to the FCC about this same issues so Again..i was right in my analogy. If T-Mobile allows Facetime over it's network I'm going to get my iPhone UNLOCKED & switching to T-Mobile, granite i won't save AS MUCH money but i'll be At least able to use the features that should practically be allowed on At&t.
only feature I dont have on my AT&T factory unlocked iphone 5 with tmobile is visual voicemail. Otherwise I get 4g or LTE if in supported areas, facetime over data (without tweaks) and any other basic feature. Of coarse to enable LTE or 4G instead of it just saying 3G I have to have my iPhone jailbroken, but thats the only reason I use the iPhone to begin with, otherwise using the iphone is pointless
Dude the majority of my customers that come to my store have iphones on tmobile, when they have network issues I get paid to fix them when no tmobile employee has an answer. If I have an issue with my 64gb iPhone 5 on tmobile (which I paid $400+tax no contract for) then so does everyone else on tmobile with an iPhone. If I fix the issue with mine, I can do so for others as well getting me paid. I personally don't care much for high speed internet, its nice having it but not needed, but thats what I have my tmobile note II on my second line for (no other reason other than data). Everything accept visual voicemail works great on my iPhone and when I have 4G free stock internet tethering. Its much more beneficial for me to have tmobile and their awesome customer service than AT&T and their terrible customer service. Thats just me though
Actually it ONLY works via Wi-Fi. I'm talking about over Cellular. AT&T has blocked it; Verizon has it blocked I think Sprint is the only one may be so yeah...
Actually it orks perfectly fine, i've never had an issue using facetime over data unless if i'm just on edge. the only time I ever used it though I was always on 3G/4G which I can also use data when on a call as well, all you have to do is enable facetime over cellular in settings and your done, nothing else to do.
It might be an issue with AT&T then, everything has always worked on both my 4S and iPhone 5 with tmobile including free data tethering since they are not tmobile phones. Seems to me like tmobile users have a bit more advantage than AT&T users here. I'm not just saying this shit to troll or anything, but I actually do get every feature accept visual voicemail on my iphone 5 with tmobile (and then some)
its weird if you got att and dont have "every feature" since GSM iphone is geared for att network bands; tmobile i dunno about the lte since there was previous articles that said only the AWS tweaked ones will work on tmoLTE
the current ios profile setup for tmo is still buggy and overrides the correct MMS settings sometimes
If you have an AT&T iPhone 5 then you can use tmobile LTE, the only difference in tmobile's iPhone 5 is that it has an AWS chip whereas AT&T's does not. Both models use LTE band 4 (or 1700) meaning if you are in vegas, KC or NYC or wherever else tmobile enabled LTE any tmobile iPhone 5 user can use LTE. Verizon iPhones on tmobile can only use 4G on 1900MHz because it doesn't support LTE 4, but they do ship factory unlocked just like every cellular iPad does.
Both the current Iphone 5 AT&T Variant and new Tmo/AT&T phone coming on April 12th have the same chipset, but it was stated that only the phone being released on the 12th will have the firmware necessary to support HSPA+ AWS on 1700MHZ. These devices are physically the same, and no hardware updates have been made per the recent FCC submission which is public Information. Everything REALLY is just hear say until things start to happen when it comes to apple. They have told us one thing, and done another on more than one occasion. I'm hoping they don't screw me over on the unlocked device I just got in february as I'm just an earshot shy of the refarmed area, and would love to have HSPA+ AWS, but I'm not holding my breath... It can likely go either way really :(
The tethering thing was news to me.. I didn't even bother trying it because I was afraid it would until I called t-mobile about an imessage issue I was having .. they had me put in the settings and I asked her if it would cost me to use it.. nope!
She also had me enable data roaming and told me it wouldn't cost anything unless I left the country..
Of course none of that fixed my imessage issue.. that required me editing a plist on my jailbroken iphone 4s..
I'm a happy t-mobile customer enjoying excellent 3g speeds, fully functioning mms, imessage, facetime.. the only thing this carrier update should bring me is visual voicemail which would be a nice bonus.
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