Does Net10 allow a person with an older IPhone 4 use their service? WOuld it need “unlocked” from AT&T?
I’m not sure. I asked the Tracfone people about it and they SEEMED to imply that the minutes go with the phone, and the phone goes with a SPECIFIC carrier, and that’s the best they can do.
I got a feeling that deep down in the bowels of hackerdom, someone knows how to do what I want, but it’s not anything generally known.
Anytime you talk to these folks they are (intentionally, I am sure!) very elusive and non-specific with their answers.
But my underlying thoughts are the same, if you pay for and buy a service, it should be yours, to use or not use or give away if you want.
They basically sub out the actual carrier to major companies. In my area, it's AT&T.
Net10 will work with a former ATT iPhone 4 phone that has been unlocked by ATT (you can ask for this when you complete your contract). Then, you have to screw around a bit, get a net10 SIM ($15), get a tmobile SIM (very cheap on eBay), and follow some posted on the Internet directions; then, get on the net10 forum and ask the net10 customer service people to fix up your phone. This seems like a lot of trouble, but I have found their service “good enough” for a reasonably intelligent user, they use the ATT network, and the savings are very considerable, particularly if you have bill as you go for the prepaid cards. EVEN WITH getting on my wife’s service, I could not get as good of a deal through ATT for unlimited text/phone and 1.5GB/month.