Although the first Apple Watch with LTE support introduced Apple as early as 2017 Apple Watch Series 3, domestic Apple users had to wait until June 2021 for support for this technology. Only then did the first domestic operator, T-Mobile, officially start supporting it and therefore offering it. A few months later, O2 also launched LTE, but on Vodafoneone was expected until now. Fortunately, this will soon change. Vodafone Press Departmentone officially confirmed to us that the launch of support Apple Watch LTE is coming.
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Statement from the Vodafone press departmentone specifically reads as follows:
"eSIM support for Apple Watch we are prepared in every way. Service OneNumber for Apple Watch and sales Apple Watch We will launch Cellular in a few weeks.”
There were already signs in August
Service OneNumber, which is required for LTE to work on Apple Watch key, launched by Vodafoneone relatively quietly at the beginning of August this year. At that time, however, only watches understood it Samsung Galaxy Watch, which does not enjoy nearly as much popularity as Apple Watch, due to which the whole thing went off without much of a fuss. Even then, however, it was more or less clear that this was preparation for the launch of support Apple Watch LTE, because in the end, due to their presence on the market, they are the only product that actually makes sense for the operator to introduce support for the technology. And nowoneWe are constantly learning that this will happen sooner or later.
Although Vodafoneone did not reveal a closer date, given that LTE support is Apple Watch tied to system software update watchOS, it seems quite likely that we will see the launch perhaps as early as on Tuesday, October 24th. It is for this very day Apple apparently planning to release the first major updates to their new operating systems, which will of course include watchOS 10.1, which could include support for VodafoneoneIf so nestyes, she can, however Apple deliver even in one of the minor updates.
Regarding the price of the service OneNumber, which is 99 CZK per month, with Vodafone offering it for the first three monthsone free. This is the same price as the "split" number for Apple Watch and T-Mobile as part of the service Apple Watch Connection. The functionality of the service is simple - thanks to the connection to the operator's mobile network, you will be able to receive messages, calls or notifications without depending on a mobile phone nearby, which can be useful, for example, during sports or in general situations where you cannot have your phone with you.
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Cartel deal? All three have the same price - is this even allowed? What about the antimonopoly office?
That's probably what Vodafone would be likeone stupid if he set the price, say, 30 CZK more expensive.
He could have set it 30kc lower, or he could have set other devices, for certainly more expensive tariffs he could have given this service for, for example, half.
But the question is why would he do that. The number of users on that service will be miniThe cost of acquisition was extreme.
But the question is why would he do that. The number of users on that service will be miniThe cost of acquisition was extreme.
What would we do in Slovakia if the operators started it... we'll probably never see it :(
Exactly! SHAME on SK operators!!!
Exactly! If we ever get to see it, according to internal information, T-mobile or Orange could be the first
Only if it will be in the near future.. when Telekom just launched VoWiFi :D
If it goes at this pace, maybe in ten years :D
You have to wait until Fico goes to your leader for forgiveness like Orbán did, then you will have technology that will amaze you 😁
Maybe it will never happen in SK. This service is quite ungrateful for operators, as it has a low return. As a result, how many customers will the operator use? 1.000? 1.500? Some will try and cancel it, others will not want to change their watch for the eSIM version because of it. Apple he wants some $860.000 (CZK 20 million, €811.000) for it, that is, with such a number of users and a price of 100 CZK/piece/month, a return of some 11 years. Usually the operator calculates returns for 3-6 years, so it is not interesting for him. In addition, it is usually the case that if the number of users on regular services drops to the stated levels, it is no longer worthwhile and the tariffs are simply cancelled. 20 million can be used, for example, to cover 20 metal halls of companies that will be billed tens or hundreds of thousands per month. It doesn't pay off for operators in small markets, so it's more a question of prestige.
I have a feeling that Vodafoneone will allow Apple Watch LTE only for plans with unlimited data. Not for unlimited calls and SMS. If so, it is discriminatory. I think it is not a condition for competition or is it?
That's right, you need to have a complete unlimited tariff. It would be discriminatory if they refused to sell you such an unlimited tariff, but gave it to others.
I take it from the user's point of view. I pay for a tariff with unlimited calls and SMS + 12 GB of data. In addition, I will pay CZK 99 for the possibility of making an occasional call or sending an SMS from the watch, but for this I have to set up a new, significantly more expensive tariff. Otherwise, I have a bad luck. I admit that the word discriminatory is not the right term. It's more like blackmail.
How much do you pay for Unlimited with 12GB (I assume you have VF)?
587 CZK and the speed is not limited in any way. 5G what a specific BTS and signal strength will offer.
And is that enough for you? 🙂
For a similar price, you can get Super with unlimited data at a speed of 10 Mbps and there is the option of 5x acceleration every month. max.
The Super tariff is CZK 290 more expensive and I also have TV viewing included in the tariff.
I also have unlimited data with Vodafone for the same price (limited to 64GB only outside the Czech Republic within the EU)
They say "exclusively" 😂 The text you cite as an official confirmation from Vodafone's press department is used by Vodafoneone in the comments on his FB page without change for several months.
ProA really good move to increase the readership of an article that's about absolutely nothing, right?
Interesting. When I copy that statement word for word into Google, I can't find it even once. Just like on Facebookor Twitter. What else do you have there?
You guys are really entertaining 😂 When I search for "vodaf" on Googleone apple watch esim”, so it's the eighth link. But Google is not a panacea. Try looking through the comments under several posts on Vodaf's FB pageone CZ.
We're talking about the car, you're talking about the goat :) A few weeks old statements like "eSIM support for Apple Watch we are ready in every way. We are now waiting for the company to unlock this service Apple". We will inform customers in a timely manner about the launch of the service." are not really equivalent to statements like "....The service OneNumber for Apple Watch and sales Apple Watch We'll be launching Cellular in a few weeks.” Or another way. What is incomprehensible about the fact that now a certain time has begun to be given, but before that everything was indefinite?
The eighth link…. on your keyboard you have cmd-c or ctrl-c and ctrl-v or cmd-v… so put that link here. Ever heard of Google giving you personalized results? apparently not.
Exactly, this is what they write in the comments on Facebookui on Techforum from Vodafoneone, so it's not that exclusive
Pete, throw some link here, dikec
With more than a million unique monthly readers, how would it specifically help us?
Stop your nonsense about unique readers.. my god, how old are you? Like a 13 year old kid, we have unique blah blah blah.. if every other article wasn't clickbait, articles weren't constantly recycled and one piece of information wasn't written into 10 articles. What do you say to that? I've been here almost since the beginning but you're like some kind of a messcar RomanAnd..
RomanWell, they can't post screenshots here, so I'll at least copy their answers in the comments, which are repeated. The same goes for their Techforum.
"Hello, Lukas,
eSIM support for Apple Watch we are ready in every way. We are now waiting for the company to unlock this service Apple"This is what they used to do."oneancient.
"Good day, Vladimir,
service OneNumber for Apple Watch and sales Apple Watch We'll be launching Cellular in a few weeks.” They've been using this answer for 2 weeks
Just a little gem. Vodafoneone claimed to be waiting for the service to be unlocked, Apple tvHe was crying that he was waiting for Vodafone.one, after fulfilling some things and settings.
You are grasping for words, but this is exactly what VF has been writing for several weeks, and the representatives at the branches say it as a mantra...
You defend it here as if now is a "specific time". Where is the data specific? They can launch it in two, three or even ten weeks, twenty weeks... it will still be "a few weeks"...
Okay, Lukáš, and what exactly are you talking about now? ….
Sorry, I didn't respond to the comment I wanted to.
My point is that you are defending that this is some exclusive message for your editorial team, but it is exactly the same Vodafoneone has been announcing since the launch of the service for Samsung watches.
The only difference between what you supposedly getone It said the launch will come in the next few weeks. But there's still no specific timeline – it's been working on the Samsung Watch for a few weeks now and it could take another few weeks (or even months if you calculate it correctly) before it launches on the Apple Watch.
And I have the impression that sometime last year Vodafoneone announced that the service launch onenumber for AW will take place in the second half of 2023 (which is still the same date as they will tell you in October within the next few weeks).
I don't see anything exclusive about it.
That's not to say that I'm not pleased with the article, and for the last few weeks (again, the same time frame) they've been checking it every day. LSA and I'll read about it here OneNumber on AW because even in the case of Samsung I learned this from a different website than directly from VF.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
Lukáš, try googling what the word exclusively means... and you are supposedly writing to disparage their or our message as if you don't believe it? I don't really understand it, do you think that in our position we can afford to write that someone told us something if it wasn't true? I really don't understand your posts in the discussion and if you read day after day LsA As you write, I'm quite sorry that your only comment here is hate on us... if you don't like the website, I don't know why you're reading it...
I check here every day to see if you will inform me about support. OneNumber for Apple Watch from VF.
It's not so much hate towards you as towards VF. Although, yes, I point out how you claim here that this statement was exclusively communicated to you by their press department, even though a very similar statement (if we don't get hung up on words, exactly the same) VF already claims miniat least two months, and regarding the launch within a few weeks, representatives at the branches are already using it on some Fridays. At least here in the Pilsen region (I ask every time I go past a branch or toiosto VF).
All I care about is that you firmly stand by the fact that VFCZ exclusively told you this, despite the fact that many commenters claim that we have been hearing the same (or very similar) message for several weeks.
Lukáš, I apologize personally for the fact that we were not at your place in Pilsen, which is 700 km from the house to ask how it is with LTE support Apple Watch…. please forgive me So next time I will visit every single branch to meet your expectations. They also gave you an exclusive at your branch… put it on your website and enjoy life :) good luck and have a nice weekend. I hope you accepted my apology regarding the omission to visit the Pilsen branch, otherwise I will not have a good night's sleep.
So now it's enough to just hope...we'll see
The whole family was with Vodafone for about 5 yearsone and I definitely do not recommend this operator. Errors, problems, outages... and even when we wanted OKU codes to transfer to O2, we had to call the infoline because it was not possible in the self-service (technical error).
It is in a similar spirit Apple Watch LTE (which the remaining operators already have) mini(at least a year). It was supposed to be in the summer of last year, then in the fall, then in the spring... and now it's said to be "soon". Which only illustrates how Vodafone is involved in this.one Technically, it's embarrassingly lame.
here is the link:
https://www.techforum.cz/topic/60991-esim-duplikace-sim-s-identick%C3%BDm-telefonn%C3%ADm-%C4%8D%C3%ADslem/page/19/#comment-466177
I also saw this sentence on FB in the comments.
We didn't notice that, thanks for the first relevant evidence. Anyway, the answer is 9 days old. We got one yesterday directly from the Vodafone spokespersononeSo there's probably no point in talking too much, because we're talking about a difference of less than two weeks - still a few weeks.
anyway, it's nothing. Before, there were reports of the type that everything is ready and just waiting for Apple etc. So maybe it will come with Tuesday's Watch OS update and iOSSo let's be surprised.
Three times ku.va glory! No this is nothing to celebrate, shame on Vodafone for taking this long! Unfortunately, I am their customer who has been writing "already" to the infomail every month for two years.
Does anyone have any experience with what it's like if I wanted to have two watches like this? 9 and Ultra, can I have a copy of the number in both? And depending on which one I take, will it work or will I have to choose only one of them? Thanks for the info
Have a nice day, yes. one According to the support page, we can use Number on 2 other devices, so I would say that you can use it on both watches, but I don't know if the price will be 2 x 99 CZK.
I already have the option to activate mobile data on my watch, I'm waiting for activation with Vodafoneone. VDF CZ already has on its website that Apple Watch are supported for Mobile data.
Service functionality OneWe verified Number on these eSIM-enabled devices:
• Apple Watch SE 2020 GPS + Cellular
• Apple Watch SE 2022 GPS + Cellular
• Apple Watch Series 4 GPS + Cellular
• Apple Watch Series 5 GPS + Cellular
• Apple Watch Series 6 GPS + Cellular
• Apple Watch Series 7 GPS + Cellular
• Apple Watch Series 8 GPS + Cellular
• Apple Watch Series 9 GPS + Cellular
• Apple Watch Ultra GPS + Cellular
• Apple Watch Ultra 2 GPS + Cellular
• Samsung Galaxy Watch3 LTE
• Samsung Galaxy Watch4 LTE
• Samsung Galaxy Watch4 Classic LTE
• Samsung Galaxy Watch5 LTE
• Samsung Galaxy watch5 Pro LTE
• Samsung Galaxy Watch6 LTE
• Samsung Galaxy Watch6 Classic LTE