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Q: Issues with iPhones on AT&T MVNOs

Issues with iPhones on AT&T MVNOs

Starting September 17, 2015 Some iPhone & iPad users who updated to iOS 9 got an unpleasant surprise, their data stopped working!

The problem seems to be confined to users who:

  1. Use their iPhones on a MVNO that, like most MVNOs, is not an official Apple partner.
  2. Their MVNO uses an access point name or APN, that's different than the one that the mobile network operator their MVNO runs on uses. An APN is the name of a gateway that connects the mobile network to the Internet. If it's wrong, no data.
  3. The mobile network operator is one like AT&T that has asked Apple to block users from manually editing APNs.

In      In the US, AT&T seems to be the only operator whose MVNOs are affected.

 

iPhone MMS Messaging Problems

Many large AT&T MVNOs still can’t offer MMS messaging on iPhones after the newer iOS versions blocked the ability to manually MMSC URL settings.

  • H2O Wireless, “(Note: This setting applies only to the data, it does not include the application of MMS.)”.
  • Red Pocket Mobile, “Please note that MMS for iPhone is available only if you can manually configure your iPhone.
  • Airvoice
  • PureTalk USA
  • Good2Go

iPhone 6, iOS 10

Posted on Sep 24, 2016 12:41 PM