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.

  IS  US Mobile a Verizon MVNO ?

Then there is only 4g LTE available ?   I believe Verizon has dropped all support for 3g  ?

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Using Simple Mobile (MVNO) service :

My PMOS Convergent phone running the Mobian Oct 22 nightly

The data hot spot works great,  I am using my laptop via the pine phone.

Much snappier this way than the onboard browser  !  And a much better screen to navigate...

SMS text works good,  current nightly still has issues with 'sound settings' for voice calls.

US Mobile offers both Verizon and T-mobile service via choice of Sim card. Both are VoLTE only now*. Only AT&T is still allowing new gsm only accounts.

T-mobile is still using gsm in not yet converted areas, but will only allow on new phones that are capable of VoLTE and has set their network to VoLTE preffered in anticipation of terminating their 2g/3g phone service in Feb 2021. This has become a point of discussion in the ubports forums.