RE: OT: Cellular telephone service

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-linux@slg.org [mailto:owner-linux@slg.org] On
> Behalf Of Scott Wunsch
> Sent: September 5, 2006 3:58 PM
> To: linux@slg.org
> Subject: Re: OT: Cellular telephone service
>
> It's not that bad, if they sell the phone far enough below
> its actual price (which they generally do). With GSM, you
> also have the option to decide that you don't like the
> practice, and go out and buy a phone from another source, and
> simply put your Rogers SIM card in it. (I actually did this
> with my Treo, because I didn't feel that Rogers was giving me
> enough of a discount to be worthwhile buying it from them.)

You can get GSM phones unlocked, too. I had this done with my phones. It
isn't terribly expensive. There is no advantage to doing this with CDMA
phones because of how they work. (Few carriers will let you activate a
foreign CDMA phone, but GSM phones can't be stopped if they are unlocked.)

Jim
Received on Tue Sep 5 16:16:33 2006