Straight Talk Bring Your Own GSM Phone Program (Not a Loophole)

**silentjudge** · 02-02-2012, 12:47 AM

StraightTalk Jhonally
Hi Brandy. A new program will be releasing tomorrow (February 2nd) which will allow customers to bring an AT&T, T-Mobile GSM phone or an unlocked domestic GSM phone to Straight Talk or NET10 by simply buying a SIM card from us. In order to activate the service, you will need an Unlimited Airtime PIN or a credit card. This program will NOT work with Blackberry and branded Straight Talk, SafeLink, TracFone and NET10 phones. This will NOT work with CDMA phones as well. Thank you.

StraightTalk Jude Hi Brandy. It's BYOP-Bring Your Own Phone program, which will allow customers to bring an AT&T, T-Mobile GSM phone or an unlocked domestic GSM phone to Straight Talk or NET10 by simply buying a SIM card from us. In order to activate their service, they will need an Unlimited Airtime PIN or a credit card however this program will NOT work with Blackberry and branded Straight Talk, SafeLink, TracFone and NET10 phones. This will NOT work with CDMA phones as well. Thanks.

https://www.facebook.com/StraightTal...50546495612569

WOWOWOWOW

**starlitdreamzz** · 02-02-2012, 01:01 AM

Originally Posted by silentjudge

https://www.facebook.com/StraightTal...50546495612569

WOWOWOWOW

Hell yeah!!!

**silentjudge** · 02-02-2012, 02:45 AM

Supposedly more info will be available here (at some point):
http://www.straighttalksim.com/

**starlitdreamzz** · 02-02-2012, 03:30 AM

That's so cool, I can't even believe it! Thanks for the update silentjudge.

**Antenna** · 02-02-2012, 03:33 AM

This is indeed good news, a page out of T-Mobile's prepaid book. No more Nokia E71 SIM swap trick

Sent from my HTC Incredible S

**Conan Edogawa** · 02-02-2012, 03:44 AM

So with your own unlocked gsm phone, can you use any of the Net10 or Straight plans or just the unlimited ones? Also, will byod users be charged the same price per month or will there be some surcharge?

**fonezfonz** · 02-02-2012, 04:05 AM

WHOOOOOAAAAAAA!!!!!
Is this for real? No way! America Movil going byod? Somebody pinch me!!

I thought Christmas was in December!

BYOD in the US prepaid arena just got turned upside down!

**silentjudge** · 02-02-2012, 04:16 AM

Originally Posted by Conan Edogawa

So with your own unlocked gsm phone, can you use any of the Net10 or Straight plans or just the unlimited ones? Also, will byod users be charged the same price per month or will there be some surcharge?

Read the first post...unlimited plan

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**The_Sweeper** · 02-02-2012, 04:52 AM

Holy crap. Hell has finally frozen over. Never thought I would see an American Movil company offer BYOD.

**acecrackr** · 02-02-2012, 05:28 AM

Question is, though, which carrier's coverage do you get with this program? If it's t-mobiles, i'd rather stick with the sim swap method..

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**ada229** · 02-02-2012, 05:34 AM

Unbelieveable. Hopefully coverage stays the same and no data throttling.

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**spekkio** · 02-02-2012, 05:47 AM

I woke up just to post this. Unbelievable.

Also if you read what the person said carefully, It would suggest you can be on AT&T or tmoble depending on your device. That is assuming they meant exactly what they typed.

**fonezfonz** · 02-02-2012, 06:41 AM

Originally Posted by acecrackr

Question is, though, which carrier's coverage do you get with this program? If it's t-mobiles, i'd rather stick with the sim swap method..

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Why be picky? Just be happy it happened. Period. This is like the fall of Qadaffi. But better.

**IsLand_BoY** · 02-02-2012, 07:14 AM

Wow. All I can say is.. Wow. Interesting that they say you can use either an AT&T *or* T-Mobile phone, sounds like their SIM card will work in either despite being locked?

I haven't kept up with ST, but at what point do they consider unlimited, NOT unlimited? 1GB? 2GB? I used 2.2 GB last month on T-Mobile.

VERY interesting turn of events in the prepaid market though.

**fonezfonz** · 02-02-2012, 07:19 AM

Silentjudge states around 2gb with a safe limit of around 100 mb a day. However, considering that they are $10-15 less then an Att mvno w/2gb plans (Red Pocket/Jolt), it's a good deal. CS though of course sucks.