Austad, Jay wrote: > would know.... I read awhile back that ATT found a way to lock their SIM's > so they will only work in an ATT locked GSM phone, not in an unlocked phone. > Is this true? I know ATT locks their phones, but their SIM's too? I wonder if they will even give you a SIM or support you without buying one of the phones. I know Rogers in canada wont let you just buy a prepaid SIM card. Fido, however, who is microcell who t-mobile/voicestream has a 40% share in does do prepaid SIM cards. They also do roaming for voicestream customers at pretty crazy rates (about ~$.60/min/USD for roaming and calling back to the USA total.). The prepaid cards are at least half the cost of that, afaik. > I want to get an Ericcson t68i, but ATT doesn't provide it, so I'll have to > buy an unlocked one somewhere. But if ATT's SIM doesn't work in an unlocked > phone, I guess I'm stuck with the t68 (not the i). Voicestream unlocks any phone (simunlock at voicestream.net) if youve been on a contract with them for over 3 months. > Also, ATT's GPRS data pricing is outrageous. 7.99 for 1MB, and 12.99 for > 2MB. At GPRS speeds, you could easily go over your limit in just 10 Richochet is coming back. For massive data at ~$50/mo I would rather wait for that. GPRS is slower than richochet, too. (I'm probally spelling richochet incorrectly, too) /me notes he pays $3.99 on voicestream and uses the 'family plan' with two phones (total cost i think is like 60 or 70) and gets: one phone with 50 sms my phone with around 600sms messages for free and 1mb gprs shared 800 weekday minutes unlimited weekends if you can get signal and accepted registration in the US, you incur no extra costs. > obviously cell providers here are "donating" big money to not have these > laws pass. Number portability would increase competition and benefit the > consumer since the #1 reason people don't switch providers is because they > don't want to change their number. I don't want to be charged another #*(@##@!!! $3 to $6 over name portability like we do for normal phones now. I think its like 2-3$ on a land line these days. Plus, I wouldn't want to trust the reliability of a ported number. I would like to see it available for a user fee that only affects people who require ported numbers. Voicestream has a larger network and most likely more global roaming deals than at&t since they are really t-mobile. I'm just waiting for the Danger Hiptop to finally come out. T-Mobile rebranding of voicestream should be verrrrry soon now... -- Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> http://www.ringworld.org/