LOL this is massive, RIM is gonna make a killing from people re-buying their phones haha wow just wow.

This would be very unlike T-Mobile... if it is true, they better enjoy their status at 4th place carrier. Pissing on the customers you do have is not good for business.

You are using a phone the carrier doesn't support. You went out of you way to unlock it and tweak it to work, and you are surprised when carrier tries to disable it?

my storm is working with no prob's right now

i say its there network and they can do what they want.

because look at the support side they wernt trained to support a device they dont carry

I think T-Mobile took away the free "Blackberry Enabler Service" as well.

T-Mobile is probably not doing this intentionally. They are just changing their network. If they change their network and you're using a device not built for their own network, of course they aren't going to go out of their way to support it. If it was one of their own blackberry devices, then it would be a problem, but it's a device built for another carrier so if it doesn't work, then it's not their problem.

If this is in fact true and it were me, I would move to a different carrier.

Mines is working fine I'm actually posting the comment using it, but if T-Mobile did stop support would just give me an excuse to get android.

My storm on T-Mobile is doing just fine.

Assuming this is true, (1) a little heads up would have been nice and (2) could they be setting up for the Slider release?

I can't imagine they're doing this intentionally. From multiple past experiences, they do an excellent job of supporting non-T-Mobile devices... to the point where in one case, they walked me through downloading a Legacy program through Cydia for my girlfriend's iPhone 3G to get MMS and FlexPay working...

Just my 2¢

Let me call the Waah Bulence for you guys who want a unsupported device to work on this network

No wonder I am not able to get on the internet. My wife has the same phone as she is. And actually Tmobile does have Storm on their UK website so I figure they do have support for it. Well good thing for two things, thanks to me for having an iPhone, and Verizon here I come.

My buddy has an unlocked Storm and started having these issues a couple days ago. None of his data services are working. I use a 9700 but my back up phone is a Storm, so I brought it to work and swapped his SIM card...no luck. But with mine it worked. Ive used T-Mobile cust service before for an unlocked iPhone & my Storm, had no problems.

Sounds more like a technical issue than a policy change. Not affecting all Storm users. Not affecting other non-supported phones like my Bold 9000. Their EM+ plans are basically Bring-your-own plans...

At least your guys company let's u even turn on a phone from another carrier. VZW is crazy about that kind of stuff.

TMO is the worst phone company I have ever dealt with, I would never recommend anyone using their service. I signed up with them because the cost was cheaper than AT&T at the time, they assured me being in oklahoma I would not have any problems using their services and for 2 months they were right, then out of the blue I wasn't receiving services at home nor at work as I did the previous 2 months. I couldn't figure out wth the problem was, called TMO cust service, they had me doing all kinds of trouble shooting. Then, I had to drive to norman to get a SIM card which is about an hour away from my home. Still nothing, They sent me a replacement phone after going through the several steps. I got the phone still nothing, I got sick of dealing with TMO, got online did some research and found out that AT&T had ending their contract with TMO as far as roaming goes and that was the reason why I was no longer getting services. I was HOT! long story short after lots of cussing TMO cancelled my contract with no charge, I ended up paying for a unlock code because they were being asses and would not issue it to me right away. My first experience with them was HORRIBLE and I tell everyone I know about it and tell them to stay away. I'm with AT&T and loving it... so, this story does not surprise me at all!

The only phone I've seen T-mobile deny network access to were the people who were on the sidekick prepaid plan with a unlocked/jail broken iphone. Tmo doesn't care what phone you have, they want your service $$$$. If you bring ur own phone to them that's no out of pocket cost to them. Every discount a carrier provides on a phone is a loss to them, with intent to make it back on service. The EM and EM+ plans prove that. And while tmo doesn't have direct support for storm they have good bb people and they have a non tmo device dept, that specializes on trying to get ur unlocked phones fully functioning with the network. Sometimes the truth is they don't have to and if the hspa+ upgrades mess up ur tweaks and a few unlocked phones get unsupported, sorry to hear but I'm sure the tech support people will pull their hair out trying to help u.

Last week I noticed my blackberry enabler was not working either I called Tmo and they said it was taken off and wanted me to sign up for the 29 dollar data plan. I blew up and told them no way! once I explained that this would be considered breach of contract they put it back on but gave me a really hard time about it. But today I noticed that my phone now says "Initialization Failed" and now I have no service they are blaming this on a bad sim card and want me to go the store and get a new one. I don't believe this the issue I think it's their network but we will see. By the way I don't have the Storm I have the Bold 9700.

I have an 8900 on TMo and I've noticed some ups and downs the past couple of days.

Remember back when OS 5 first rolled out and a whole bunch of unlocked BB T-mobile users (mostly Storm) couldn't make or receive phone calls? that turned out to be a network incompatibility issue that they eventually resolved, quietly in the background.

I suspect this problem is along the same lines. Like others here, I haven't had a single issue with my service and all is well on my Storm 2.

Not at all sure why all US carriersw don't allow other devices on their networks. As another posted pointed out, it's all gravy to the network. All phone plans/data plans include in their cost the value of subsidizing the phone - hence the early termination fee! If you sign up for 2 years on carrier X and they don't have to subsidize your handheld - that's more $$$ in their pocket. T-mobile has always recognized this.

My guess is that depending on the OS you are operating on your devices - there is a now a conflict with T-mobile's build ou of the BB enabler.

People Help yourselves out and start sharing the device and OS builds you're running.

this suxs....last night i noticed my phone was too quiet...well upercase EDGE is there but no data....called CSR this morning and they say the device is not supported and we cant do anything...another one said there is an data outage for the non supported BB's and no estimated time given when it will be back up.

I have been without data services in Providence, RI since Monday night. I called TMobile and they told me at first there were no problems with any towers. the next time I called they told me there WAS a tower down. But for this to be happening all over different parts of the country doesn't sound like a simple tower problem. Tmobile pisses me off! I might just be switching over to Verizon since I cannot be without my Storm 2