Sim cards and carriers, discussion

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Has anyone been able to get a Verizon or Verizon MVNO sim card to be recognized by the Pine phone ?

I guess 'plainenough' did get one going with the help from a Verizon employee at the retail store, but that seems to be the only one..?

So far in the US  it seems just AT&T and T-Mobile and their MVNO's are the carriers who have sim cards that work in the Pine phones.

US Mobile (not US Cellular) is a MVNO under their "Super LTE" branding and I have working calls, sms, and LTE. Tested under Manjaro Beta1 with the new modem firmware.

Interesting.  Im just going through this. I went to an ATT store (they dont have microSIM cards (the Pinephone uses microSIM cards) any more and this seems to be the case with the industry, they are all going to nanoSIM cards. TMobile did not have a microSIM card, they tried with an adaptor (I should have brought mine), but the adaptor was cut slightly differently and the nanoSIM card would not stay in place.  The chap at the Verizon store inserted a SIM card and it authenticated to Verizon, but we could not check whether a call could be made, because the SIM card was not loaded.  I told him that a verification of my IMEI with some of the providers basically came back with a message that the Pinephone I was using was not usable on their network, He said that as long as he was setting up the phone, he could add a usable IMEI number during the provisioning process which would allow the non viable IMEI associated with the SIM card to be used. Sounds a bit fishy, but that's what he said.     This link claims to be reasonably authoritative https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=...er_Support about support for the phone.     If phone companies make a decision as to whether a given phone will be allowed to a network based on an IMEI

I have been using the Pinephone with US Mobile verizon SIM since last March. You have to sign up using a verizon allowed phone imei. But, I have not been blocked, unlike on AT&T.