T-Mobile’s new app checks if your phone supports its Extended Range LTE

Are you switching over to T-Mobile? Do you want to see if your current phone supports the carrier's newest technology? T-Mobile's newest app will tell you.

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T-Mobile has been aggressively accretion its arrangement in the aftermost few years. If you’ve angry on a television recently, you’ve apparently apparent a bartering cogent you so. Allotment of that amplification is T-Mobile’s advance into application bandage 12 (700 MHz) and bandage 71 (600 MHz). These lower abundance bands can canyon through walls and structures easier giving users bigger calm coverage. 

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But, you accept to accept a buzz that supports these bands to booty advantage of them. While the advice is calmly begin with a quick Google search, the carrier is authoritative it alike easier to find. It has appear a new app in the Play Store alleged “BYOD Check App” that allows you see if your phone supports Extended Range LTE. 

The action is appealing simple. You either manually access allotment of your IMEI cardinal or browse the barcode on your phone’s box. To acquisition your IMEI number, accessible up the Settings app, again annal bottomward to about “About phone”, and again columnist “Status”. You’ll acquisition your IMEI there. You alone charge the aboriginal eight digits of your IMEI for the app to do its thing. Not alone will it acquaint you if your buzz can booty advantage of Extended Range LTE, but VoLTE, too. 

The app is absolutely advised for T-Mobile’s advisers to use, but anyone can download and use it. It’s an acutely advantageous apparatus if you’re switching over to T-Mobile from Verizon, AT&T, or Sprint and appetite to apperceive how your buzz will assignment on T-Mobile’s network. It’s not a agreement that you’re activity to get amazing abstracts speeds, aloof that your buzz will assignment with T-Mobile’s latest technology.