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Word on the street is that an update will be hitting the iPhone 5 (http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/26/t-mobile-iphone-5-hands-on/) on April 5th that will turn on access to T-Mobile's LTE network on unlocked GSM models. While you'll have to wait until April 12th (http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/26/t-mobile-iphone/) to pick up the iOS handset direct from the magenta-hued carrier, those who have been running rogue with unlocked devices from AT&T or purchased direct from Apple should soon be able to run at full, blistering 4G speeds. (Where the fledgling network has been fired up (http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/26/t-mobile-announces-first-lte-markets/), at least.) The internal notice obtained by
TmoNews (which you can see after the break) reads:
"The T-Mobile Carrier Update is a minor iOS software update that enables official iPhone support by T-Mobile. When installed, the software update enables a handful of capabilities like Visual Voicemail, MMS Settings and Network/Device optimizations that customers do not have access to today. On April 5, the software update will begin being pushed via OTA to all iPhone devices on the T-Mobile network with iOS 6.1.x or higher."
So it's not just LTE, but also some of the basic features that make the iPhone such a compelling product, which will suddenly turn on for T-Mo customers. We'll know soon enough if there's truth to these rumblings, but we'd imagine the iOS update would need to be pushed out ahead of the official T-Mobile iPhone launch.
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Comments (http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/02/Unlocked-iPhone-5-T-Mobile-LTE/#comments)Source: TmoNews (http://www.tmonews.com/2013/04/t-mobile-sending-out-carrier-update-enabling-lte-for-unlocked-iphone-devices-on-april-5th/)
Via: Engadget