The launch of the iPhone 5 on the T-Mobile USA network last month was greeted with a lot of fanfare and a new pricing structure -- customers could pick up a 16 GB iPhone 5 with a $99.99 down payment and then make 24 payments of $20 to purchase the phone outright. TmoNews reports that the down payment on all iPhone 5 models has been bumped up to $149.99, which raises the cost of the unlocked phone to $630.
That's not all that much less than the price of an unlocked iPhone 5 from Apple -- $650. Of course, the
