iPhone 18 Pro ships without a physical SIM tray in the United States and eleven other countries and regions, which means eSIM activation is not an optional extra for most American buyers, it is the only way the phone gets service at all. Apple documents six separate ways to put an eSIM on the phone,…
Carriers
iPhone 18 Pro Carrier Offers Outside the US: What Telstra, Vodafone Australia, Docomo and Orange Publish
Outside the United States, several carriers have published their own iPhone 18 Pro launch offers directly on their own websites, separate from the prices on Apple’s storefronts. In Australia, Telstra is offering a flat $300 bonus trade-in credit and Vodafone Australia is bundling three months of Apple TV+ and Apple Music. In Japan, NTT Docomo…
iPhone 18 Pro's 12 eSIM-Only Markets Still Make You Pick a Carrier at Checkout
iPhone 18 Pro has no SIM tray in 12 markets, including the United States, and carrier choice still happens at Apple’s checkout in every one of them. Removing the tray changed how a line gets onto the phone. It did not remove the moment where a buyer picks a carrier and the price moves by…
iPhone Handoff Launches With Two Carriers Worldwide: Every Carrier Rule in Apple's Footnotes
Footnote 9 of Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro press release is one sentence long and it decides who gets one of iOS 27’s new features. Verbatim: “iPhone Handoff will be available at launch with T-Mobile in the U.S. and Telekom Germany in Germany.” Two carriers, two countries, and no other carrier named anywhere. iPhone 18 Pro…
eSIM-Only iPhone 18 Pro in 12 Countries: What Apple Publishes for a Multi-Country Order
iPhone 18 Pro ships with no SIM tray at all in 12 countries, and Apple publishes the list. Apple also publishes the dual eSIM specification, two lines active at once and eight or more stored, and it has published nothing about moving those lines across a company fleet. iPhone 18 Pro ships without a SIM…
Locked or Unlocked iPhone 18 Pro: What Apple Publishes, and What No Carrier Will Confirm
Apple sells iPhone 18 Pro with a “Connect on your own later” option, and the $1,199 to $2,399 prices on its Store page are the prices for that unattached configuration. Picking a carrier in the same checkout does not change what you pay Apple. It changes what you are committed to afterwards. iPhone 18 Pro…
Apple Trade In, Carrier Credit or Selling It Yourself: What Your Old iPhone Is Really Worth Now
Your old iPhone is worth three different numbers this week, and only one of them is money that comes off the price of an iPhone 18 Pro on the day you buy it. Apple credits $175 to $885 instantly, a US carrier advertises up to $1,200 but pays it as bill credits over 24 to…
iPhone 18 Pro Carrier Credits: What You Forfeit If You Leave Before 36 Months
A carrier credit on an iPhone 18 Pro is not a discount you receive at checkout. It is a queue of monthly bill credits, and the ones that have not arrived yet are exactly what you leave behind if you switch carrier, change to a plan that no longer qualifies, or settle the phone early.…
iPhone 18 Pro Dual eSIM Explained: Two Active Lines, Eight or More Stored, and Where the SIM Tray Is Gone
The iPhone 18 Pro supports dual eSIM, which Apple’s tech specs define as two eSIMs active at the same time with eight or more stored on the phone. In 12 countries, including the United States, Canada and Japan, there is no SIM tray at all, so eSIM is the only way to add a line.…
Customers of Phone Carrier 'Visible' Report Account Cancellations
Customers of Visible have reported some erroneous account cancellations after taking advantage of the carrier’s recent promotion.
Here's How to Enable Scam Protection on Visible
In an email to customers, prepaid carrier Visible announced that it’s rolling out a Scam Protection feature to fight robocalls.
Visible Deal Gives 2 Months Unlimited Data for $11
Visible is offering a deal that provides two months of unlimited data at US$11.00 for each month. The 2for22 deal starts tomorrow, February 2.
Get Free AirPods When You Sign Up For Visible for Black Friday 2021
Starting November 18, Visible is offering new customers a free pair of earbuds when they buy select phones and port their number.
Verizon Names Manon Brouillette as CEO and Executive Vice President
Verizon Communications announced Manon Brouillette as Executive Vice President and CEO of Verizon Consumer Group effective January 1, 2022
FBI Document Reveals Guide to Get Location Data From Carriers
An internal document for the FBI reveals how the agency obtains phone location data from carriers like AT&T, Verizon, and others.
Switch to T-Mobile and Your Phone Will be Paid Off Up to $1,000
T-Mobile announced that it will pay off your remaining smartphone payments up to US$1,000 if you switch to its network.
Customer Accounts of 'Visible' Phone Carrier Hacked, Unauthorized Purchases Made
Visible, a carrier owned by Verizon, suffered what some believed was a data breach on Wednesday, with some customer accounts hacked.
SMS Routing Company 'Syniverse' Admits it was Hacked in 2016
Syniverse provides backbone services to wireless carriers like AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and several other carriers. It discovered the breach in May 2021 but it began in May of 2016.
Syniverse repeatedly declined to answer specific questions from Motherboard about the scale of the breach and what specific data was affected, but according to a person who works at a telephone carrier, whoever hacked Syniverse could have had access to metadata such as length and cost, caller and receiver’s numbers, the location of the parties in the call, as well as the content of SMS text messages.
Phone Companies Must Block Carriers That Don't Follow FCC Rules
Phone companies must now block traffic from voice service providers that don’t comply with new FCC robocall rules.
Specifically, phone companies must block traffic from other “voice service providers that have neither certified to implementation of STIR/SHAKEN caller ID authentication standards nor filed a detailed robocall mitigation plan with the FCC.”
What You Can Do If Your Verizon iPhone 13 Doesn't Get 5G
Some iPhone 13 owners are reporting that they’re unable to get 5G Ultra Wideband. PCMag found three solutions that may help.
The iPhone 13 has Five Different 5G and LTE Configurations
The iPhone 13 lineup has five different configuration setups for 5G and LTE. This is the widest array of frequencies of any iPhone thus far.
Phone Carrier 'Visible' Will Sell Apple Watch Series 7 for First Time
Visible, a prepaid carrier that operates on Verizon’s network, will sell the iPhone 13 models and the Apple Watch Series 7 on its website.
Verizon Brings 5G Ultra Wideband to 25 NFL Stadiums
Verizon and the NFL announced a 10-year partnership on Thursday to bring 5G Ultra Wideband to 25 NFL stadiums over the next decade.
Speed Tests Reveal the Fastest Mobile Network in the United States
In its twelfth annual network test, PCMag traveled over 10,000 miles across the U.S. to test the speeds of mobile networks AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon.