That would allow you to buy the phone with AT&T before your contract ends. However, it would be in a sense "locked". I remember a customer came in emphatically wanting a T-Mobile phone. Yet, when she tried to use her Asian Sim card, she got incompatibility notices and we had to exchange it for a truly "unlocked" phone. Her efforts to buy a T-Mobile phone would still cost the same as factory unlocked, but for some reason she was led to believe that it did not matter. But it does.
I am afraid that while the "next" program is good for AT&T customers, it does not allow you to use other carrier's SIM cards as far as I know.
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> On Jun 11, 2015, at 2:32 PM, Pat Taylor pat412@mac.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> I forgot to mention that if you want your new phone as soon as they are released, you can buy it through AT&T (maybe other carriers also work the same way) on their NEXT program & then pay it off when you want. That will basically give you an unlocked phone without waiting for them to be released which has been about three months after the initial release if I remember correctly.
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> Pat
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