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Today I went in to see if I could get in on apple's new payment program, and they couldn't set it up because T-mobile wouldn't allow it. I thought this program was not connected to the carriers. you have to sign up with one but otherwise from their standpoint its like you bought a phone and just connected it to their network. so I don't know why T-mobile wouldn't let me do this.

now the good news is I also preordered an iphone which I paid for in full, so I still have a brand new iphone but would have prefered to return it and take the one under the payment plan if it was possible, and be eligible next year for an upgrade without having to pay full price and sell my old phone.

I suggested we just sign up with another carrier like sprint and he said the phone I reserved was just for T-mobile so I'd have to do another reservation for a sprint phone. also it would depend on sprint's rules if I could keep them for a month and then put in my T-mobile sim card, canceling sprint or just canceling T-mobile and keeping sprint.

he made it sound like that wasn't an option. so either the apple salesman was confused or I am.

figured I'd come here for input.