(03-21-2022, 12:49 PM)Fred Zyphal Wrote: First a short back story, then the answer at the end.  I live out in the trees in Washington State, where there is virtually no signal.  Because Comcast has cable buried in the road, I have decent internet, so about 5 years ago Verizon gave me a "network extender" which plugs into my local network and gives me my own private little cell tower inside my house.  This has worked great with my 3G Palm Pre 3, but 3G is going away soon so I'm paying close attention to my original PinePhone and my new Pro now.  Verizon said they would allow my PinePhone on the network, but I filled out the forms a long time ago, and it's going nowhere.  In the meantime, I paid Consumer Cellular $9 a month to hang on to my old land line number that I had for about 25 years.  This has turned out to be a blessing for the PinePhone because Verizon seems to be useless.  I took the already activated SIM out of my cheap CC phone and stuck it in the original PinePhone and it worked, although I had to stand in one corner of the house near a window on coffee table to get usable signal.  Once the PinePhone Pro arrived I was tickled to discover that it works far far better, I can use it in the deepest darkest corners of the dungeon otherwise known as my basement, it's amazing, it just works.  So the answer to your question ...

Consumer Cellular, which piggybacks on either AT&T or T Mobile, works great for me in the Pro.

(03-21-2022, 03:30 PM)S H Wrote: So the Key seems to be to have an already activated SIM and not ask them to active with the PPP IEMI

(03-21-2022, 12:49 PM)Fred Zyphal Wrote: First a short back story, then the answer at the end.  I live out in the trees in Washington State, where there is virtually no signal.  Because Comcast has cable buried in the road, I have decent internet, so about 5 years ago Verizon gave me a "network extender" which plugs into my local network and gives me my own private little cell tower inside my house.  This has worked great with my 3G Palm Pre 3, but 3G is going away soon so I'm paying close attention to my original PinePhone and my new Pro now.  Verizon said they would allow my PinePhone on the network, but I filled out the forms a long time ago, and it's going nowhere.  In the meantime, I paid Consumer Cellular $9 a month to hang on to my old land line number that I had for about 25 years.  This has turned out to be a blessing for the PinePhone because Verizon seems to be useless.  I took the already activated SIM out of my cheap CC phone and stuck it in the original PinePhone and it worked, although I had to stand in one corner of the house near a window on coffee table to get usable signal.  Once the PinePhone Pro arrived I was tickled to discover that it works far far better, I can use it in the deepest darkest corners of the dungeon otherwise known as my basement, it's amazing, it just works.  So the answer to your question ...

Consumer Cellular, which piggybacks on either AT&T or T Mobile, works great for me in the Pro.

(03-20-2022, 04:25 PM)S H Wrote:

(01-17-2022, 06:44 PM)bcnaz Wrote: The AT&T  "resellers"  work very well,  I have 3 test phones running effortlessly on Pure Talk prepaid,  and only 1/2 the monthly price of AT&T prepaid direct.
Their customer service is the best I have come across.    *(sim cards activate very easy in the Pine phone)

My daily driver Pine phone is still on AT&T because I have had that 'Number'  for years,  but the data is screwy there, 3 years of bugging tech support with no success.
Customer service is very friendly,  but ..... not much success.

all of the T-mobile  "resellers"  (like Simple) that I have tried,  activate and work with no issues.  *(sim cards activate easily in the Pine phone)

I have never had any luck trying to activate a Verizon sim card,  a very few have had store associates help them activate a sim in a different phone, then swap
..... that into their Pine phone.
................  but some of those encountered more problems later.

There are some threads on this forum that discuss this in great detail,    check the sim cards and carriers threads.

Hi, I had a quick question. I am trying to activate a sim card with T mobile but they refuse and say the PPP is not a compatible device. what did you say or how did you activate a sim card with T mobile?