iPhone owners have been locked out of the T-Mobile mobile, but now they can switch to T-Mobile for voice and slow data.
T-Mobile is selling a SIM card that fits in an iPhone or iPad or any unlocked GSM smartphone for that matter.
"Need to activate--or have an unlocked GSM phone you want to use on the
T-Mobile network? Just get a Micro SIM card and choose a plan. Slip the
ready-to-use Micro SIM Card into your phone and you're ready to go."
The SIM card is free with a two-year contract with a suggested retail price of $9.99.
We called T-Mobile customer service to find out if an iPhone 3G would work, T-Mobile would not unlock it.
The customer service rep told us that we could get a free phone, but it would not be an iPhone. We could buy an unlocked iPhone from Apple. Both AT&T and T-Mobile are GSM networks at different frequencies.
We suspect that if someone bought a SIM and then activated over the phone, T-Mobile would not know how the iPhone was unlocked.
In a couple of years after the T-Mobile and AT&T merger, this whole network issue may be moot.