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11-15-2012, 02:52 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Originally Posted by T2urtle
Do u pay any taxes for straight talk or just a flat $45
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I renewed online recently and they charged me $1 in tax. So it came out to be $46 roughly.
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11-17-2012, 09:00 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Just switched to ST with a Lumina 920. Loving it so far.
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11-17-2012, 09:06 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 1,875
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Quote:
Originally Posted by T2urtle
Do u pay any taxes for straight talk or just a flat $45
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Depends on your state really. But it is a sales tax so you will only pay $1-2, not $10-15 like postpaid service. If you enroll in auto-refill or buy 3 month refills you get a discount which makes up for the tax.
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Originally Posted by sjwaste
Does MMS on the iPhone work if you use unlockit.co.nz, or do you need to still edit the APNs? I have an unlock pending for my wife's out of contract iPhone, which should allow me to then edit APNs without jailbreaking, but I'm just curious if MMS works without that.
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unlockit.co.cz only changes the data APN. The MMS apn still needs to be edited. You don't have to jailbreak to edit it. You can use the guide under here for non-jailbroken MMS.
http://wiki.howardforums.com/index.p...ht_Talk_iPhone
Also, even if your iPhone is unlocked, the network settings screen won't show up if you have an ATT SIM in I believe. You have to put in a T-mobile SIM, edit the APN and then put your ATT/Straight Talk sim back in. See the above link for a tutorial.
Last edited by ImDonly1; 11-17-2012 at 09:13 PM.
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11-17-2012, 09:20 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Portland, Oregon
Posts: 6,105
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ImDonly1
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Also, even if your iPhone is unlocked, the network settings screen won't show up if you have an ATT SIM in I believe. You have to put in a T-mobile SIM, edit the APN and then put your ATT/Straight Talk sim back in. See the above link for a tutorial.
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Keep in mind, you need the phone unlocked to do this if using an iPhone 3GS.
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11-21-2012, 10:37 AM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Lancaster, KY
Posts: 4,520
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Just got an HTC Inspire off FS/FT here.
I'm gonna use my AT&T SIM card for now & use WiFi (Have a non-smartphone plan).
Just ordered the new ST SIM Card & a $45 Unlimited card, should be here Monday.
Tried working with AT&T for a decent plan with Data, but the best I could get out of them was going to cost ~$80 mo. (for 120 MB Data!) And I've been out-of contract for over 2 years! (They used to give you a free new phone and/or service upgrades with a new 2 year contract!)
Not gonna happen! I'm paying $50 mo. now for 450 min. Talk, text is extra, no Data. (I use less than 250 min. mo. talk)
Can't see myself using much data at all outside the home, but I thought it would be nice to have if cheap enough.
Should work well for me, 1-1.5 MB daily or 1.5-3 MB monthly should give me plenty of leeway.
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11-21-2012, 10:43 AM
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Lifer
Join Date: Mar 2000
Posts: 14,345
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Quote:
Originally Posted by stormkroe
Straight talk is amazing. I'm not sure why anyone would use the big guys (data speeds i guess?).
Too bad Canada won't get on the ball with cell pricing.
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Mobilicity is analogous. Unlimited everything for a decent price, but throttled data speeds.
Fido has a decent $57 plan with unlimited everything... except just 1 GB data. I instead took an a la carte retentions plan on Fido for just under $60, but it gives me 6 GB data and LTE support (although the latter may be moot as my next phone doesn't support LTE).
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11-30-2012, 06:57 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Cool glad ya dig prepaid and the savings in your pocket. 
I tried suggesting this to one of my friends to go prepaid when him and his Wife's contract runs out but he's convinced that a contract plan helps build credit.
I did some research online and found that not to be the case but he argued with me about it.
Prepaid makes sense to me for most people to consider.
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11-30-2012, 08:27 AM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 7,020
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Eug
my next phone doesn't support LTE
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What, you giving up on the Nexus?
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11-30-2012, 08:31 AM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Washington DC
Posts: 8,285
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Getting my ST sim in the mail today. Been interesting living off of Groove IP and wifi areas but I need some true mobile data already!
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12-09-2012, 11:26 AM
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Golden Member
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 1,583
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stupid question maybe, but does anyone know if I can stop refilling my straight talk for a few months and then reactivate it with the same SIM? I'm going to be out of the country for a few months and figure I might as well save ~$150 if possible...but I don't want to lose my number.
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12-10-2012, 11:49 AM
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Golden Member
Join Date: Jan 2000
Posts: 1,025
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mitchafi
stupid question maybe, but does anyone know if I can stop refilling my straight talk for a few months and then reactivate it with the same SIM? I'm going to be out of the country for a few months and figure I might as well save ~$150 if possible...but I don't want to lose my number.
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You can reactive, but you might lose the number. From what I can tell the day your deactive your number goes back to the pool of unassigned numbers. You can always port your number to google voice. $20 and you get to keep it forever.
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12-10-2012, 02:53 PM
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Golden Member
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 1,583
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Midwayman
You can reactive, but you might lose the number. From what I can tell the day your deactive your number goes back to the pool of unassigned numbers. You can always port your number to google voice. $20 and you get to keep it forever.
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Thanks for the info. I actually did port my old AT&T number to google voice so I'm not too concerned about the number...guess after thinking about it some more the only minor drawback is I might have to spend the $5 or whatever on a new straight-talk SIM.
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