You can avoid an AT&T contract plan and do pre-paid minutes on your iPhone. The trick is to fail the credit check during the registration process.

How do you fail the credit check? Just enter the bogus 999-99-9999 SSN during the registration process. Doing this will cause a prepaid plan option to appear!

Submitted by jason - 2007-07-02 10:39:39
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Here are some links for sites that are working on -- or have the capability of -- unlocking your iPhone so that you can use it on other networks besides AT&T:

http://iphoneunlocking.com/
http://www.cell-unlock.com/apple...
http://www.ifoneworx.com/
http://fineunlock.com/products/A...

Submitted by jason - 2007-07-02 10:43:31
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Tags - apple iphone att unlock sim

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The iPhone has a removable SIM card. You just need a paperclip to remove it. Until there is a good procedure for unlocking the device, you'll still need to sign up with AT&T, but you can use the WiFi services with a T-Mobile SIM after the device has been registered. It'll just complain about needing an AT&T SIM when it boots.

Submitted by jason - 2007-07-02 10:46:54
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Tags - iphone att sim tmobile

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