@phat200 said in Red Pocket 360 Day Prepaid No Contract ULTIMATE Wireless Phone Plan, Unlimited Everything, 5GB 4G LTE $220.00 @ redpocketstore via eBay.com:
I am just trying to confirm that a locked AT&T Prepaid phone cannot be used for the Red Pocket service?
Separately, what happens if you go over the 5GB data? They also have a $5/mo plan with 500MB 4g data, w/ 100 talk +100 text. That is the one I am interested in.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Red-Pocket-360-Day-Prepaid-Wireless-Phone-Plan-Basic-No-Contract-SIM-Kit-Inc-/132288143818?_trksid=p5731.m3795.
TIA
It is my understanding that if a phone is locked to a carrier, it can not be used with any other carrier, including a major carier’s MVNOs or between MVNO’s on the same parent carrier. It is locked to/can only be used with the carrier it is required to be activated with for the first time (unless it is somehow unlocked, although some less expensive phones can never be unlocked).
As for data: this is an unlimited data plan, but only the first 5GB of data per month is at 4G LTE (I think it may be 2G after that but couldn’t find that documented on their site).
@phat200 said in Red Pocket 360 Day Prepaid No Contract ULTIMATE Wireless Phone Plan, Unlimited Everything, 5GB 4G LTE $220.00 @ redpocketstore via eBay.com:
@igorskovoroda said in Red Pocket 360 Day Prepaid No Contract ULTIMATE Wireless Phone Plan, Unlimited Everything, 5GB 4G LTE $220.00 @ redpocketstore via eBay.com:
@fivetalents I purchased three of the 360 day Red Pocket 100min/100text/500MB data plans. I received activation numbers via email within a couple of hours and SIM kits about a week later. The SIM kits contained GSM cards for AT&T, T-Mobile, and a single CMDA card for use on either Sprint or Verizon networks. Each activation number will activate only one of the three cards provided. (When one card is activated the other two cards become invalid.) By definition, an unlocked GSM-only phone will not accept CDMA SIM cards; And, while unlocked CDMA/GSM phones accept GSM cards they may not provide full LTE coverage. As an example, an unlocked Samsung Galaxy S7 G930P (Sprint) will only support two of the four channels used by the T-Mobile network. I don’t know if an unlocked Samsung Galaxy S7 G930T (T-Mobile) will accept any CDMA SIM cards, but I had no problem using Red Pocket T-Mobile SIM cards in my carrier-locked T-Mobile phone. As I alluded in another post, there is a difference between carrier-locks and boot-loader locks. Boot-loader locks are installed on some pre-paid phones to prevent discounted, low-cost phones from being used with another plan.
How do I determine whether my locked phone is carrier-locked or boot-loader locked?
I’d just google your specific model number. Info on carrier locking is not model specific, but it should be fairly easy to find out if a given model can never be unlocked.