I will be travelling next month to Germany and the Czech Repuplic and I would like to know where I can get a prepaid SIM card for my MDA-III/ Any suggestions?
check out prepaidgsm.net
there you will find out which carriers exist in the countries and what the prepaid packages are called. usually you can buy them in airports, or in major shopping areas where companies have company stores. You can also buy them from telestrial.com but you pay through the nose for the convenience to have the SIM before you arrive in the country
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I know that my MDA III is unlocked, but what about other T-Mobile phones. They must also be unlocked, right? Do you know of any S/W or sources out there that will unlock TMobile phones? (ie Motorola)
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Hello all,
This fall I will be travelling overseas to Sweden for a semester of study. I'd like to be able to take my captivate with me and just buy a pay-as-you-go or contractless phone/data plan from a provider in europe when I get there.
However I have no experience with european providers or what the cheapest and most effective way to communicate internationally and locally(in Sweden and across Europe) would be. Even less where to start looking, so:
Can anyone point in the right direction for some resources to find out what my easiest options would be?
Do I have to unlock my phone(at&t) in order to use another provider?
Does the Captivate support the bands needed for 3G/calling in Europe?
Could I potentially buy a data-only plan and use skype over 3G for calling?
Any tips/advice would be greatly appreciated
Thanks!
I would also like to know, hope this goes somewhere
You may want to ask in the i9000 forum. But to my knowledge you can add a overseas plan to your att plan and you get charged a lesser amt for your minutes.
You should be able to buy a pay as you go sim when you get over there as well.
I'm not sure about Sweden, but I recently went to the U.K. for work and I took my unlocked captivate with me. I got a local SIM card when I got there and had absolutely no problems at all and it was a lot cheaper than any plan AT&T had.
I went to Mexico once for a week and used one of those plans from AT&T and my bill was $150 higher that month.
When I visited France I hadn't yet unlocked my phone (which would be my first recommendation, then buy just data once there) and I used GVoice Callback (GV Dialer does the same) in conjunction with Sipdroid (of Fring) and a SIP phone number from SipGate to make free calls from France to US landlines via hotel wifi.
Here are some links with info to configure what I describe:
http://goo.gl/M1vj1 (this is a summary of my configuration)
http://goo.gl/sZhVw
http://goo.gl/63yD
http://goo.gl/gUIHF
Staying w/ AT&T when overseas will be expensive.
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Hello all,
This fall I will be travelling overseas to Sweden for a semester of study. I'd like to be able to take my captivate with me and just buy a pay-as-you-go or contractless phone/data plan from a provider in europe when I get there.
However I have no experience with european providers or what the cheapest and most effective way to communicate internationally and locally(in Sweden and across Europe) would be. Even less where to start looking, so:
Can anyone point in the right direction for some resources to find out what my easiest options would be?
Do I have to unlock my phone(at&t) in order to use another provider?
Does the Captivate support the bands needed for 3G/calling in Europe?
Could I potentially buy a data-only plan and use skype over 3G for calling?
Any tips/advice would be greatly appreciated
Thanks!
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I believe this link will answer your question:
http://www.worldtimezone.com/gsm.html
They use the 2100Mhz UMTS band, (which we also use over here in Malaysia)
And it will work.
( got mine unlocked by default though, get superoneclick to unlock your cappy)
Call ATT and ask them to give you an unlock code. Otherwise it won't accept a non-ATT simcard
I used my unlocked Captivate in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Czech Republic. No problems in any of the countries roaming on an AT&T SIM or a local pre-paid card. I used an O2 MVNO in Germany and Vodafone in Prague.
Some of the common carriers in Europe are T-Mobile, Vodafone, O2, and Orange. I'd check carriers local to where you are. Vodafone was much more expensive in Germany than it was in Czech Republic. T-Mobile tended to be on the expensive side anywhere.
Vodafone in Czech Republic was $30 for unlimited data. Most carriers will charge you 5 or 10 euros (of the equivalent in local currency) to buy the SIM, and there will be about 10 euros of credit on there.
I'd get Google Voice and use that to call back to the US. That way you only pay for data and avoid text/voice charges.
Good luck!
DarkDvr said:
Call ATT and ask them to give you an unlock code. Otherwise it won't accept a non-ATT simcard
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Or just use SGS unlock tool and you can unlock it in less than 5 minutes.
Hello everyone,
I'm currently in Canada and I would like to bring my Galaxy S II (in 3-year contract with Bell Canada) with me to China. I had an online chat with a sales rep about what I need to do to have it working in China without paying for roaming. She told me that I need to unlock my phone for $75 in order to get rid of the International restrictions that comes with any new customer's plan. I thought a phone has to be unlocked in order to take foreign sim cards. However, from my understanding of the sales rep's explanation, I CAN use my phone with a foreign SIM card with no problem, but I need to pay roaming afterwards. So what do I have to actually unlock in order to have my phone working in China (with local a sim card) without having to pay roaming?
Thanks.
I have a dumb question. I've been in fed prison since the smart phone epidemic and have no idea what smart phone to buy. what is the best smart phone out there? And cell phone provider? After some little research, (I am just learning how to us the internet) and some advice from some computer savvy friends I am thinking about getting the lg g2 from amazon. Its an lg g2 801 international unlocked. I have been told, getting an unlocked international will enable me to use any service provider. Is this true? I am in an area that Verizon, at&t and walmarts straight talk are the only providers and would like a phone I can use with who I choose, when I choose. All I would have to do is buy a sim card from the provider I choose, right? To many choices...... and I know nothing about this world. I will pay for the phone upfront. Help.
Hello bjroyce the phone you are looking at is a nice phone to start off with the lg g2 international will work with any carrier including the ones you listed. At&t has great coverage has a 2yr contract which means you will be locked into a 2 year agreement with them they also have a prepaid account which is you pay for the data plan you choose and cancel when you want no contract need at&t prepaid sims can be found at at&t and many other stores. Verizon also has great coverage and has a contract agreement and a pay as you option which sim cards can be found in Verizon stores or in most stores. Walmart straight talk use at&t or verzion network which is a pay as you also know as prepaid account straight talk sims use at&t or Verizon or T-Mobile network based on the sim number on the sim card which sim cards can be found online or in stores. you will aslo need a nano sim card for the lg g2 d801 international phone.
Good choice!
Here in the UK you can buy your phone, branded, on contract, or SIM free and unbranded from carriers and many other retailers.
In another thread, the poster said
I love my Edge and so much so I returned my att model and bought the T-Mobile version and rooted it.
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This implies to me that he couldn't get it SIM free. Is this not an option in the USA?
Excuse my ignorance, but I have often wondered how it works in the old colonies.
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Here in the UK you can buy your phone, branded, on contract, or SIM free and unbranded from carriers and many other retailers.
In another thread, the poster said This implies to me that he couldn't get it SIM free. Is this not an option in the USA?
Excuse my ignorance, but I have often wondered how it works in the old colonies.
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Nope, Freedom isn't always free. LoL Here is the US, some carriers lock their phones, Some use CDMA (Sprint/Verizon) technology, So they won't work well on the GSM networks. They also use different bands, to make matters worse, so if you do what the person above did, there are parts of the US that don't use Tmobiles bands, so he will lose 4G LTE. AT&T made it even worse, because they have the bootloader locked and now you can't even root it and get rid of carrier apps. (At least not until some Dev figures out how to unlock it) My AT&T is carrier unlocked, there are websites that will do this for a price. So if I wanted to, I could drop another SIM carriers card in it and use it. But since I am on AT&T's Next plan, I will be paying on this phone for 30 months. (Cost the same as full price, but spread over 30 months interest free)
I'm in the USA and travelling to Europe for a week and a half. Both my wife and I have unlocked phones (LG G3 and HTC 10). In the past, I've had T-Mobile so I got away with 2G data and free SMS but now that I no longer use their service I'm wondering what my options are this time around?
How does it work when I get to the other country if I want data/SMS there? How do these whole "pre pay" things work and buying a SIM from another country. I'm new to this.
We'll be going to Ireland if that helps.
no one travels international and cares to help/comment?