Regional flat-rate carrier MetroPCS has announced the addition of more service areas and a new plan offering in separate press releases today.
Residents in the Flint, Lansing, Saginaw and Bay City, Michigan areas can now take advantage of MetroPCS products and services with one corporate location in Flint and one in Lansing, with 89 authorized dealers serving the combined areas.  The carrier also announced in its 3rd quarter conference call that it planned to launch service in the New York City area beginning in 2009.
MetroPCS has also added to its coverage footprint by expanding unlimited access to 300 additional markets for $5 a month on $30, $35, and $40 plans with $45 and $50 plans receiving the additional access at no extra charge.
I wanna see how this is gonna work here. I live in flint and I remember when we had crickets… Sprint is the dominant carrier hereM but for their prices I could see a lot of people carrying 2 phones again like they did with cricket before.
We’re still checking to see if this deal includes data roaming. We’ll report back if/when MetroPCS gives us that information.
chris do you know if they have any smartphones out
No, but you can activate HTC smartphones on MetroPCS. The PPC-6700 looks like the best bet right now:
http://flash-ppc6700-xv6700.neaturl.net/post/How-to-Flash-Your-PPC6700–XV6700-to-MetroPCS.aspx
(You can ignore step 1 of the guide, changing ESNs is no longer necessary due to the MetroFLASH initiative).
That said, there’s nothing really stopping the Mogul/Titan or Touch/Vogue from working as well… you’re just getting a better deal with the PPC-6700 since MetroPCS isn’t EV-DO Rev A yet. The only benefit you additional things you could get is GPS (and Bluetooth 2.0).
Note: As usual, please do not address general questions to me. You ignore tens of thousands of people in doing so… who probably could answer your question.
Just be warned that these new markets are running on Metros 1700 mhz network, and any phone you bring over probably will not work.
Correct, the easiest way to check is to call a local MetroPCS store and ask if MetroFLASH is available in your area. If an area doesn’t offer MetroFLASH, then the network is using 1700 MHz, and you would want to use a MetroPCS phone with 1700 MHz support.
Can the Samsung M540 Rant be flashed with MetroPCS? if so I’m leaving Sprint TOMORROW. pleeeease someone reply. thanks in advance!
BUT! metro doesn’t let you know until last minute that if you FLASH other phones to work with metro pcs, you wont be able to use all of that phone’s features. all you get is regular text and unlimited calling. no picture messaging and no internet…so bEWARE!!!
and if you’re trying to see what phones can be FLASHed to metro pcs, just go to metropcs.com/flash and all the phone model numbers should show up and just see if your model is up there. good luck!