I still use an old Verizon Blackberry which Verizon was happy to unlock. I've used it with multiple SIMs around the world without a problem. I'm about to take it off the Verizon network but keep the phone for travel. One of my SIMS gives me a permanent UK number and a US number which works as long as I use it once every few months. It seems that's an easy solution for many people is to pick up an old Blackberry for overseas travel which should cost almost nothing.
Ed __________ Ed Angel Chair, Board of Directors, Santa Fe Complex Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) [email protected] 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel http://artslab.unm.edu http://sfcomplex.org On Oct 15, 2012, at 10:49 AM, glen e. p. ropella wrote: > Nicholas Thompson wrote at 10/13/2012 08:59 AM: >> So, we sent off messages to America asking whether Verizon will >> kindly let us unlock our phone so we can join a competing provider >> while we are in China. > > I think Verizon will give them the code to unlock the phone. I'm told > they are cooperative in this. But they'll only give you 1 code in any 6 > month period. > > My old phone was a Verizon (CDMA and SIM) phone that I'd flashed to > Cricket. In my planning for an upcoming trip overseas, I tried placing > a SIM card in there and got the SIM Lock prompt. I was told I could > have my phone added to my S.O.'s Verizon plan, call them and get the > unlock code, then remove the phone from her plan. She wouldn't have > been able to request a code for her phone for 6 months afterward. But > she rarely leaves the country; so it would have been fine. > > I opted out and used the situation as an excuse to buy a phone that is > unlocked from the start. I'm now using Simple Mobile, which > (apparently) buys bandwidth from T-Mobile. My signal is better, but my > coverage is more sparse. C'est la vie. But I should be able to buy a > SIM card anywhere and have it work. > > -- > glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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