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Cellular Phone Forum / General / GSM / September 2005locked/unlocked
If I buy an unlocked phone to use in Europe with a Sim I buy there, can I use a cingular or other domestic Sim card here and keep the phone unlocked. In other words will the US carrier lock my phone if I use their service. >If I buy an unlocked phone to use in Europe with a Sim I buy there, can I >use a cingular or other domestic Sim card here and keep the phone unlocked. Yes. >In other words will the US carrier lock my phone if I use their service. No, that's not how locking is accomplished. Thus spaketh Al: > If I buy an unlocked phone to use in Europe with a Sim I buy there, > can I use a cingular or other domestic Sim card here and keep the > phone unlocked. In other words will the US carrier lock my phone if I > use their service. Once a phone is unlocked you can use any network, it won't get locked again. Note your phone will need to be 1800/900 for virtually all countries outside the USA.  Signaturewww.dodgy-dealer.co.uk >If I buy an unlocked phone to use in Europe with a Sim I buy there, can I >use a cingular or other domestic Sim card here and keep the phone unlocked. >In other words will the US carrier lock my phone if I use their service. Once it is unlocked it stays unlocked. - - > If I buy an unlocked phone to use in Europe with a Sim I buy there, can I > use a cingular or other domestic Sim card here and keep the phone > unlocked. > In other words will the US carrier lock my phone if I use their service. Yes so long as the phones unlocked and triband. Signaturehttp://stores.ebay.co.uk/experimentalist-co-uk Australian, USA, UK Pay As You GO Sim Cards. Mobile Phones - Satellite Phones www.simcard.me.uk Local Pre Pay Sim Cards. www.poms.co.uk/forum/index.php Backpacking Australia Forum. www.experimentalist.co.uk/forum/index.php Nokia 6630,6680,7710,N91,N90 Unlocking help & Free Sim Card offers. Will post to USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Germany, France. >If I buy an unlocked phone to use in Europe with a Sim I buy there, can I >use a cingular or other domestic Sim card here and keep the phone unlocked. >In other words will the US carrier lock my phone if I use their service. No. The only phones that are locked are the ones the carriers sell. You can put any SIM in any unlocked phone and it will work. Sim Locking or SP lock is something that has be done specifically prior to sale of the phone. >The only phones that are locked are the ones the carriers sell. >You can put any SIM in any unlocked phone and it will work. Sim >Locking or SP lock is something that has be done specifically prior to >sale of the phone. Very interesting! One of the reasons I chose NOT to go with Cingular was because I was bringing our unlocked phones from our former carrier (a regional that didn't lock their phones), their people told me that once I installed a Cingular SIM, the network would lock the phone. I asked how they could justify that, given that I'd brought the phone TO them - didn't buy it from them. I own it. And if I wanted to leave Cingular, I would then have a locked phone. He said that's just Cingular's policy to keep people from switching. End of sale! C.R. >>The only phones that are locked are the ones the carriers sell. >>You can put any SIM in any unlocked phone and it will work. Sim [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >Cingular, I would then have a locked phone. He said that's just >Cingular's policy to keep people from switching. End of sale! A Cingular SIM will prevent many phones from manually choosing another carrier once they are camped on a Cingular tower. That may be what the CSR meant. That does not prevent you from using a SIM from another carrier and using THEIR network. keyes04@netscape.net wrote: > One of the reasons I chose NOT to go with Cingular was because I > was bringing our unlocked phones from our former carrier (a > regional that didn't lock their phones), their people told me > that once I installed a Cingular SIM, the network would lock the > phone. Sorry, but that's total BS. It simply cannot be done. M. |
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