A GSM phone works with a SIMM. It is a little plastic wafer that plugs into
the back of the phone. Probably a flash card. The SIMM has all the
information, authorizations for your account. If you have a GSM phone,
which is what they use in Europe, and it is unlocked, all you need is the
SIMM, ...plug it in and you are on the network. Remove it, and plug another
providers one in, and your on that network.
However, if your phone is locked to Verizon, or Cingular, etc, they only
lock them like this in the land of free, you will have to swap your Simm to
one of the appropriate providers phones only. You couldn't switch providers
by changing the SIMM on a locked phone.
Like I wrote yesterday, T Mobile sold my friend a Razor, and then they
<unlocked> it for him, so he could also use it in other countries. When he
is in Europe, he sticks his European providers SIMM in ..... when he is
back in the States, he uses his T-Mobile SIMM.
At 09:40 PM 2/3/2006, you wrote:
Question for you all - has anyone out there actually signed up with a
cell service provider using an unlocked cell phone you bought online?
No, but I bought a unlocked Motorola phone, on Ebay, plugged my Cingular
SIMM in, and I was on the network.
