FaceTime not activating :(((

Please help!!!1.....I brought my Canadian unlocked back down to Boston, and am using T-Mobile USA. Well guess what? After trying activate facetime for the past 3 days, i have incurred abput $6 in United Kingdom Text Message...and its still not activated.
Was that first batch of Canadian I4s actually coming from UK?? Maybe UK Refurbs, trying to pass onto Canadians? I mean, why does FT activation need to respond to a UK Text number? Why couldnt it have just been done through iTunes...Im feeling a little dissapointed in having spent $659 for this just to have now $6 of UK texting fees..and i wouldnt even mind so much if it actually activated FT, but its not even activating....:(

vartanarsen wrote:
Please help!!!1.....I brought my Canadian unlocked back down to Boston, and am using T-Mobile USA. Well guess what? After trying activate facetime for the past 3 days, i have incurred abput $6 in United Kingdom Text Message...and its still not activated.
Was that first batch of Canadian I4s actually coming from UK?? Maybe UK Refurbs, trying to pass onto Canadians? I mean, why does FT activation need to respond to a UK Text number? Why couldnt it have just been done through iTunes...Im feeling a little dissapointed in having spent $659 for this just to have now $6 of UK texting fees..and i wouldnt even mind so much if it actually activated FT, but its not even activating....:(
I doubt that refurbished UK phones are going to Canada. Apple doesn't sell refurbished iPhones, except a replacements for damaged ones.
But to answer your questions.
1. Facetime only works on WiFi. And you have to connect to someone who has it.
2. The iPhone does not work on the T-Mobile Network. I believe you can make calls, if you have an unlocked iPhone, but you can't do data, because T-Mobile is on a different frequency in the US. Not sure why.
3. As for your UK Texting costs, I have no clue how this has anything to do with Facetime?

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