Comments on: Ka-Ching! Ting will pay your contract ETF to switch phone service http://gigaom.com/2013/01/17/ka-ching-ting-will-pay-your-contract-etf-to-switch-phone-service/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:03:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Gregg Alley http://gigaom.com/2013/01/17/ka-ching-ting-will-pay-your-contract-etf-to-switch-phone-service/#comment-1303403 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:41:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=602329#comment-1303403 I wish I had seen this sooner. I just ported my number to Ting yesterday! I’m looking at a $250+ ETF with AT&T.

]]> By: Anonymous http://gigaom.com/2013/01/17/ka-ching-ting-will-pay-your-contract-etf-to-switch-phone-service/#comment-1302268 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:18:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=602329#comment-1302268 No, you can’t grab an S3 or Note 2 (or any other LTE phone) and port it to Ting. Check out their Bring Your Own Sprint Device page. You’ll see that they are in Open Beta right now (it started about 1 month ago), and they only support a limited range of models. Specifically, they do not support porting over ANY LTE phone. If you want LTE, you have to buy it directly from them for the time being. But it is on their to-do list, and one of their requirements for themselves before exiting the open beta is that they figure out how to support porting of LTE phones.

All that said, I switched to Ting in December as soon as their BYOD program started open beta, and I brought over a Galaxy S 1 (aka Epic 4G) and a Galaxy S 2 (aka Epic 4G Touch), and that worked flawlessly. And both support 4G WiMax as well, so while I may not have 4G LTE, I’m at least getting better than 3G support. And again, they’ll support LTE porting eventually once they work out the technical details.

]]> By: Sam P http://gigaom.com/2013/01/17/ka-ching-ting-will-pay-your-contract-etf-to-switch-phone-service/#comment-1301029 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 02:27:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=602329#comment-1301029 Last I checked, iPhones are not supported for BYOD

]]> By: Kevin C. Tofel http://gigaom.com/2013/01/17/ka-ching-ting-will-pay-your-contract-etf-to-switch-phone-service/#comment-1300884 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:09:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=602329#comment-1300884 Focus on the dollar sign in the picture…. ;) Actually, Ting says they will take any Sprint compatible device that isn’t currently active with Sprint. I wonder if they could take a Sprint iPhone under that scenario?

]]> By: Brian S Hall http://gigaom.com/2013/01/17/ka-ching-ting-will-pay-your-contract-etf-to-switch-phone-service/#comment-1300881 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:04:00 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=602329#comment-1300881 Ting is great, but I don’t think they offer iPhones. Your post picture has an iPhone.

]]> By: Kevin C. Tofel http://gigaom.com/2013/01/17/ka-ching-ting-will-pay-your-contract-etf-to-switch-phone-service/#comment-1300590 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:30:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=602329#comment-1300590 Tom, they’re actually targeting folks that have recently entered a contract. In their FAQ’s they say you have to have done so before they made this announcement. :(

]]> By: tom http://gigaom.com/2013/01/17/ka-ching-ting-will-pay-your-contract-etf-to-switch-phone-service/#comment-1300494 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:39:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=602329#comment-1300494 so could i go right now and grab a Galaxy S 3, note 2 or other top end phone on sprint and than immediately port over to ting?

]]> By: Dave Z http://gigaom.com/2013/01/17/ka-ching-ting-will-pay-your-contract-etf-to-switch-phone-service/#comment-1300482 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:57:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=602329#comment-1300482 Har har, you said WiMax. ;)

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