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why autopatches,ham radio, and CB radios are still good
radioguy wrote:
wrong. I paid full price for my GSM cell phone. I did NOT get any discounts on it at all. There is not any slot to put sim cards into. Not even if you tak it apart. There is no any way to reprogram the sim number associated with the cell phone, not even if you take it apart. Then it is NOT a GSM cell phone. The GSM specification includes a smartcard subscriber identity module (SIM), which minimally includes enough information that the phone system can identify the unqiue phone, which ultimately gives it a telephone number, etc, a caller directory, a record of SMS messages sent and received, etc. And it IS a multi-band cell phone. These are the GSM phones sold in the U.S. It could be a TDMA or CDMA phone, in the U.S. they use 800 and 1900 mHz. So there is no way to bring our U.S. cell phones to Europe or Australia or anywhere else in the world and use it there by just puttting in a different sim card (oer different sim number) like the Eurropeas and Australians and the reast of the world say we can. Sure you can. I know people who do it all the time, both ways. The GSM cell phones sold in the U.S. an NOT be unlocke, even if you try taking them apart to do it. The cell phone companies won't allow it, even though the law here requires otherwise. So I don't know how they get away with it, but they do. They are not GSM phones. GSM service providers will unlock phones, for example Cingular, for a fee, or in some cases for free. There is also a booming business of ilicit phone unlocking, unlocking equipment, etc. In fact, GSM is not the only system that uses SIM cards, Motorola's MIRS network (called iDen in the US) also uses them. That causes a lot of confusion when people bring iDEN phones here and expect to use them on a GSM network. BTW, one of our SP's operates an 800mHz CDMA network and has roaming agreements with US SP's. A friend of mine was here in April and his us CDMA phone roamed onto their network when he turned it on. It was so expensive to use, he bought a GSM pay as you go phone for himself and his wife anyway. I'm going to speculate here, but I expect that if anyone is lying it was the person who sold you the phone. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM |
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