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There's a simple solution to that which only works with GSM phones.
Get a second SIM card for the "expensive" market - prepaid. Switching them
is a 30-second exercise :)
The SIM card is the "brains" of the phone. It also includes its identity -
which is the important part. You can switch phones as you wish with GSM, so
long as you have the SIM card that your account is keyed to.
Likewise, you can have multiple SIM cards (multiple accounts) for one phone,
and switch them at will, provided the phone is "unlocked." There are people
who have the software necessary to unlock GSM phones - so you can truly have
a phone without a provider lock installed on it. This is impossible for
many CDMA/TDMA/AMPS phones, which are locked in the firmware and cannot be
unlocked due to it being burned into an EPROM that cannot be reversed.
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On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 09:31:32AM -0500, Clarence Bell wrote:
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> (Snip) Finally, GSM packet, if used with a triple-band device, can
> potentially (provider and billing-dependant) work worldwide. The
> other alternatives are basically US-only choices.
>
> Wait until you see the roaming charges on this one. i lived in Australia,
> had a GSM phone and the charges from use in Hong Kong were mind blowing.
> thank goodness my company picked it up.
>
> Clarence Bell
> Toronto
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