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iPhone as a Go Phone?
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<blockquote data-quote="cptkrf" data-source="post: 1412417" data-attributes="member: 134861"><p>My post about how I found that nobody cared if you used an iPhone for a GoPhone has to modified. I was using it fairly heavy, so I stopped in a Radio Shack store to stock up on some minutes. A small town, not my usual RS. There was a young man at the counter and was perfectly happy to sell me a block of minutes, until he asked to see my 3Gs. At that point, he wavered back and forth between calling AT&T to report a major felony and lecturing me on how phones work. And how not only was there no way that an iPhone could be a GoPhone, but AT&T would cut off all my phone service if I tried it.</p><p></p><p>I didn't know that iPhones had a special data chip embedded in the motherboard, and that AT&T computers constantly scan the airwaves to look for it and if they don't find one they cut off all service. And possibly even send their attorneys out. And I certainly didn't know that GoPhones were made especially to only use the old voice circuits of the phone company. And some more information that I didn't quite understand, but filed with all the other BS that he was handing out.</p><p></p><p>At this point, I needed my debit card back and to get on the road, so I informed him that I had been using phones and hacking electronic equipment since long before that unfortunate day that his mother met his father, and could I see your manager, right now.</p><p></p><p>This was an elderly woman and, fortunately, sanity prevailed and she agreed with me that a phone was a phone, but that she certainly hadn't seen an iPhone being used as a buy-the-minute phone. </p><p></p><p>I got my minutes and hit the pavement. </p><p></p><p>So, iPhones as GoPhones aren't entirely a done deal for everyone out there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cptkrf, post: 1412417, member: 134861"] My post about how I found that nobody cared if you used an iPhone for a GoPhone has to modified. I was using it fairly heavy, so I stopped in a Radio Shack store to stock up on some minutes. A small town, not my usual RS. There was a young man at the counter and was perfectly happy to sell me a block of minutes, until he asked to see my 3Gs. At that point, he wavered back and forth between calling AT&T to report a major felony and lecturing me on how phones work. And how not only was there no way that an iPhone could be a GoPhone, but AT&T would cut off all my phone service if I tried it. I didn't know that iPhones had a special data chip embedded in the motherboard, and that AT&T computers constantly scan the airwaves to look for it and if they don't find one they cut off all service. And possibly even send their attorneys out. And I certainly didn't know that GoPhones were made especially to only use the old voice circuits of the phone company. And some more information that I didn't quite understand, but filed with all the other BS that he was handing out. At this point, I needed my debit card back and to get on the road, so I informed him that I had been using phones and hacking electronic equipment since long before that unfortunate day that his mother met his father, and could I see your manager, right now. This was an elderly woman and, fortunately, sanity prevailed and she agreed with me that a phone was a phone, but that she certainly hadn't seen an iPhone being used as a buy-the-minute phone. I got my minutes and hit the pavement. So, iPhones as GoPhones aren't entirely a done deal for everyone out there. [/QUOTE]
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