Budget Windows 10 phone

[RumoredNow]

Are you sure about this?

Pretty sure...

Sorry I had no idea where to place this thread but I figured I'd you's guys as I'm so irritated. I have a 650 with cricket and was going to switch to AT&T. I asked a cricket rep if the device being locked would work on AT&T and he said yes because they're sister companies. Needless to say I switched and now I don't have a phone because it needs to be unlocked. I asked cricket to unlock it and they told me they can't as it wasn't active for six months. Basically now I have a useless sim card and a locked phone I cant do much with. Does anybody know if I could get it unlocked elsewhere? Perhaps through some third party?

They're basically the same carrier (AT&T owns Cricket), AT&T just allows >8mbps, and Cricket's obviously the budget, prepaid choice

Yep, yep. This is known.

 

[PGrey]

Here's a post where an AT&T Employee is saying it will work:
https://forums.att.com/t5/Other-Phones-Devices/will-my-sim-card-work-in-a-cricket-phone/td-p/4210002

Not sure, there was a lot of discussion afterwards, but they seemed pretty sure, posting as ATTCares, which is their "high touch" type of support, the bailout stuff.

 

[RumoredNow]

I think the difference is anecdotal vs a rep posting a formatted reply.

In the thread you linked:



I know for a fact you can insert a Cricket SIM in a locked to AT&T or GoPhone device and it will work. I've done it with a GoPhone 640 and an AT&T branded Lumia 2520.

All the anecdotal evidence I see where people try and insert any non_Cricket AT&T flavor SIM into a Cricket branded device that is still locked results in fail.

I don't have a non-Cricket SIM or a Cricket branded device or I would test this. But all the posts I see on this site and across the web from people who attempt this say Cricket branded + locked = Cricket SIM only.

 

[PGrey]

Yeah, the bulk of the anecdotal evidence does seem to point to this, I agree. But that post was from AT&T, and it seemed pretty definitive.

If I were preparing to do this, I'd call AT&T, and ask, or maybe chat with them, that way you can save the transcript, in case it doesn't work, you have something to fall back on.

I think part of the issue is when the Cricket phone was purchased; at least that's what I saw some comments about; the newer phones since maybe mid-2014 seemed to be more likely to "just work" with an AT&T SIM. This would coincide with the purchase by AT&T, roughly.

It's kind of bizarre if it doesn't work, if you think about it. Here you're trying to move from the budget-plan side of the company to the higher-profit side, and they block you, hmm...