Root talked to a metro employee

[slipkn0t2012]

i was talking to an employee, well, flirting, and the subject of rooting came up. I let her lead the conversation, and it came up about the "microsim" slot where the 4g card goes.

She beat around the bush a little, but mentioned "you never know. With the merger going on, and with the proper unlock code and programming, it may be a possibility to use your phone (motion) with tmobile when the merger is complete". then smiled and said that's all she's allowed to say.

possibly there's since truth to that, and they won't force us to get new phones, and gsm is possible?

Just a conversation i thought i'd share

 

[rhino889a]

From my reading
I was led to believe that nothing was gonna change for metro users
That our service would continue as normal
And we would have better coverage.

 

[DirtyDee]

From my reading
I was led to believe that nothing was gonna change for metro users
That our service would continue as normal
And we would have better coverage.

That is what I heard as well, and why would an employee really know this stuff? maybe I am under estimating the prowess of metro pcs workers

 

[bart2201]

No you're not underestimating the prowess of Metro employees, but you definitely are underestimating the effects of "flirting" with a female.

 

[plasticarmyman]

Here's a link to a thread about it all right here at AF

http://androidforums.com/metro-pcs/681160-tmobile-metropcs-merger-updates-questions.html

 

[plasticarmyman]

Plus there is precedent for this kind of thing...you all remember Cingulair? Or Alltell? Where are they now?...disappeared...

T-Mobile just wants more lte bandwidth and despite what they are saying..metro isn't long for this world... yeah we have approx 2 more years..but once the merger goes through I highly doubt they'll want people to stay on Metro...they're going to want people to switch...it'll be easier on the transition... so I highly doubt they'll release any decent phones for Metro

 

[rhino889a]

Thats what i thought
With development being limited for us alot of us are gonna have a different phone anyways.
Just gonna squirrel away for the galaxy25 in 2 years
I read they cant kill metro right away they need to finish redoing the network before they acomadate an extra 9 million customers

 

[DirtyDee]

No you're not underestimating the prowess of Metro employees, but you definitely are underestimating the effects of "flirting" with a female.

I ignored the flirting part because I felt it didn't matter. Almost as if he was tooting his own horn.

 

[plasticarmyman]

Thats what i thought
With development being limited for us alot of us are gonna have a different phone anyways.
Just gonna squirrel away for the galaxy25 in 2 years
I read they cant kill metro right away they need to finish redoing the network before they acomadate an extra 9 million customers

yeah metro is going to be gone by the end of 2015...so we have some time, but i highly doubt there being any new awesome phones for us....so i'm switching as soon as i can afford it...my girlfriends Evo V 4G is awesome...i put JB on it and it's a sexy beast now...the 4G is spotty but the 3G is fast as **** anyways so *shrug*

 

[traajik]

That is what I heard as well, and why would an employee really know this stuff? maybe I am under estimating the prowess of metro pcs workers

you never know. when i use to work in different phone outlets as a kid, we always would get little memos and notices that we hardly ever disclosed with the avarage user.

one thing i specifically remember is when 'cingular' became no more.

lots of those workers didnt get brought in with at&t or offered jobs, so the cingular stores all closed down or replaced with nextel ;o

those were some good days in the 90s before at&t took over.

dare i say...when everything else went really sour? jk

http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/17/technology/cingular_att/


"He also said it was likely that some employees would be "affected" by the merger but declined to discuss how many jobs may end up getting cut"

=everyone

 

[Spec2nirvash]

i was talking to an employee, well, flirting, and the subject of rooting came up. I let her lead the conversation, and it came up about the "microsim" slot where the 4g card goes.

She beat around the bush a little, but mentioned "you never know. With the merger going on, and with the proper unlock code and programming, it may be a possibility to use your phone (motion) with tmobile when the merger is complete". then smiled and said that's all she's allowed to say.

possibly there's since truth to that, and they won't force us to get new phones, and gsm is possible?

Just a conversation i thought i'd share

Take her out for a pizza, you may get dat bootloader unlocked

 

[rhino889a]

Maybe after the merger and many people upgraded they will release the Unlock
And the Motion then will be like the Admire

 

[PlayfulGod]

Maybe after the merger and many people upgraded they will release the Unlock
And the Motion then will be like the Admire

God i hope not lol

And I doubt anything will be done about the bootloader. In most cases the carrier request the bl to be locked (Verizon), but in LG's case I think they didit all on their own.

 

[Gman9831]

Plus there is precedent for this kind of thing...you all remember Cingulair? Or Alltell? Where are they now?...disappeared...

T-Mobile just wants more lte bandwidth and despite what they are saying..metro isn't long for this world... yeah we have approx 2 more years..but once the merger goes through I highly doubt they'll want people to stay on Metro...they're going to want people to switch...it'll be easier on the transition... so I highly doubt they'll release any decent phones for Metro

Metro will be their prepaid division. Would be very idiotic of them to cut the prepaid since thats the only thing predicted to grow for the carriers for the time to come.

Your comparison is much different (Just big bells buying the smaller bells if you know what I mean) Those are big contract carriers buying a little smaller but big contract carriers with the same plans and forward goals so obviously they had to phase out whatever they bought.

T-Mobile and Metro's relationship will be much different than those it'll be more like Sprint and Boost/Virgin. Those two have the same network and the same phones just not the same plans Boost is the more family orientated unlimited one, with Virgin towards the cheaper market. Then you know Sprints the contract one.

 

[joshua.worth]

Metro will be their prepaid division. Would be very idiotic of them to cut the prepaid since thats the only thing predicted to grow for the carriers for the time to come.

Your comparison is much different (Just big bells buying the smaller bells if you know what I mean) Those are big contract carriers buying a little smaller but big contract carriers with the same plans and forward goals so obviously they had to phase out whatever they bought.

T-Mobile and Metro's relationship will be much different than those it'll be more like Sprint and Boost/Virgin. Those two have the same network and the same phones just not the same plans Boost is the more family orientated unlimited one, with Virgin towards the cheaper market. Then you know Sprints the contract one.

T-Mobile is already pushing all customers to their prepaid plans.. So that theory is out the window.

 

[PlayfulGod]

Not to mention talking to a Metro employee... well lets just say you would get more reliable information from a tree 99.9% of the time.

 

[DirtyDee]

T-Mobile is already pushing all customers to their prepaid plans.. So that theory is out the window.

That could be true, but Tmoblie prepaid is somewhat different from metro prepaid, price and data caps metro is cheaper and doesn't lower speeds after a limit is passed, they can adapt it or just keep it separate. Its really up to them.

Sent from my batcave.

 

[Gman9831]

T-Mobile is already pushing all customers to their prepaid plans.. So that theory is out the window.

Oh yeah you mean the ones that went up the site about half an hour ago. Unsupported Browser
Those are comaparative to metro just more expensive though so what I mean is metro will be the lower cost one.

 

[joshua.worth]

That could be true, but Tmoblie prepaid is somewhat different from metro prepaid, price and data caps metro is cheaper and doesn't lower speeds after a limit is passed, they can adapt it or just keep it separate. Its really up to them.

Sent from my batcave.

They have more coverage and a large deployment of DCHSPA+ across the country and for completely unlimited data calling and messaging its $70 no throttling which is the same as their on contract price for the exact same plan. Just a little info.

 

[joshua.worth]

Oh yeah you mean the ones that went up the site about half an hour ago. Unsupported Browser
Those are comaparative to metro just more expensive though so what I mean is metro will be the lower cost one.

That's possible but they're so close I'm sure that's just a dream this is a spectrum grab they want metro's spectrum for their own, they will surely integrate the two and just add more plans.

 

[Gman9831]

Not really a large HSPA+ network by most 2013 standards.

Anyway im not sure much integration will be going on in the companies. They've said they'll keep metro as a different brand and start selling HSPA/LTE phones by the completion. Then shut down metro's LTE network and move everyone onto their LTE network(don't blame them) including everyone with a current lte phone, then shut down the CDMA network in 2015.

 

[DirtyDee]

They have more coverage and a large deployment of DCHSPA+ across the country and for completely unlimited data calling and messaging its $70 no throttling which is the same as their on contract price for the exact same plan. Just a little info.

That's still more expensive than metro pcs and metro doesn't cap smart phone hot spot data

Sent from my batcave.

 

[rhino889a]

Are there any american made phones

 

[Spec2nirvash]

Are there any american made phones

Nothing is made here except pencils, pharmaceuticals, automobiles and paper products

 

[Gman9831]

That's still more expensive than metro pcs and metro doesn't cap smart phone hot spot data

Sent from my batcave.

Metro doesn't cap hotspot data because they only allow it on plans with throttling caps. If they allowed hotspot on unlimited plans they would be stupid not to put a cap on, they would probably give it like a 1GB cap.