Hi,
I have a International Google Pixel bought from a Google authorized re-seller in India. The model number printed on the back of the phone is G-2PW4200. I am going to be in traveling in the US for about a month starting next week. Which carrier would be my best bet for a prepaid sim card along with fastest data connectivity (LTE)? In the past I'd had some issues using Asian phones in the US due to band restrictions on Asian sold devices. A couple of years ago I was stuck on 3G on AT&T since my phone didn't support their LTE bands. Last few times I've been to the US I have just bought a starter kit from Net10 wireless which has sim cards inside for all the major carrier networks and I can choose to activate my Net10 wireless card on any of these carriers. Is this still the best approach? Or should I look at getting a prepaid sim directly from T-Mobile or AT&T? Which carrier would work flawlessly with my Pixel? To me LTE connectivity for data and international voice calls for super cheap prices (even unlimited) are the two most important things in carrier selection.
Thanks for the help.
Try Project Fi. I'd give them a call.
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I am currently using the phone as a pure wiiFi item. I will be coming out of contract with them and do not plain to get a nother contract. I know that att has a pay as you go for $.10/min with a $15 for 100mb. Belive it or noth that is enough for me for data as I normly only us the phone for about 20 min and 10-15 mb a mounth.
What I was woundering is if I unlock the phone are there other carriers I can go to with this phone so that I can compair? Thank for any help on this.
Yes, when you unlock you can choose any carrier of your choice
Big Dog Infuse I997 ICS CatyRom
Which country are you in? You basically need to check what bands the carrier you want to switch from uses. They need to match what your infuse can use otherwise it won't work.
The phone supports: UMTS 850/1900/2100 and GSM 850/900/1800/1900. I think T-mobile runs on a different band but I don't know for sure as I live in Canada. Here in Canada you can use this phone on Rogers (the carrier that sells it), Bell, Virgin, Fido but I don't think it will work on WIND. If memory serves me correctly it might not work on T-mo, Verizon or Sprint (because Sprint and Verizon are on CDMA). If you are in the US you might want advice from someone other than me though.
It works on t mobile because mine is unlocked and my daughter has used it with her T-Mobile sim
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It works on t mobile because mine is unlocked and my daughter has used it with her T-Mobile sim
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yeah but umts bands are incompatible so you still only get 2g.
Isn't it possible to band unlock the infuse, but it requires more than the typical efforts. wasn't some group offering to do it for $50 if you send your phone to them?
Straight Talk. Uses AT&T's networks. But you have to buy a phone off of them with a sim.
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There are different types of carriers in America and there are many things scarier can,do to lock certain devices to the network. Tmobile and att are gsm carriers and have some compatibility But they use different bands. The talk works and edge works. No 3g.
Sprint and Verizon are cdma and are not compatible. However Verizon,has phones that are both gsm and cdma and can,work on att. Nextel has Sim cards but are iden. Boost is also half cdma and half iden. And begin is basically sprint.
Then there are the no contract deals like strait talk. Problem is the Sim may be locked to the phone and even if you know the phone has a Sim and is working off atts network it may not work. The strait talk thing is only known to work if you buy a $200 Nokia smartphone and many of those have Tmobile Sims that are locked to the phone. I'm not sure how to tell the tmo version from the att version without looking at the Sim itself. Strait talk seems to just buy rights to use other networks, I've seen phones at Walmart with gsm on the box and others with cdma on the box. I think they use all the major networks depending on the phone.
I also saw an ad for simple mobile. Seems promising but appears to be Tmobile
So no 3g.
In Canada almost all carriers are 100% compatible with att phones. All but one but I forgot the name. So if you're Canadian you have options.
Do not know if you know about this- New T-Mobile Monthly4G $30 Unlimited Web & Text with 100 min of talk
email delivery or purchase monthly cards at Super Walmart.
Can not post link but go to Walmart dot com and search for the card I listed above.. sorry
Consumer Cellular is an AT&T reseller - in fact AT&T phones treat their SIMs as an AT&T SIM, don't even need to unlock.
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Entropy512 said:
Consumer Cellular is an AT&T reseller - in fact AT&T phones treat their SIMs as an AT&T SIM, don't even need to unlock.
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Thanks, good to know. Might have to look into a consumer cellular Sim and an i777. I wonder if it will work with lte in the future (the Sim that is. not the phone) but I can,worry about that when my area gets lte and the next generation,phone comes out.
I switched to sprint about 5 months ago and I got my s5 with a 2 year contract. We also got another line with another phone. The account is in good standing with payments on time always. Will Sprint unlock it for me so I can use it on a trip im taking overseas? I'm not sure what their policy is..and I know they do it OTA, so that means I have to be on stock rom right?
Yes stock rom. Sprint more than likely unlick. Of course you will have to mnew monthly charges. But depend sd wherr your going. If going to us territories sprint will work. Just call sptint anf see
They will usually unlock it for international roaming after having the phone on your account for 90 days.
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please note that most of the world is now based on GSM and Sprint is a CDMA based service. Once unlocked you would probably need a GSM sim card installed in order to use the S5 (this sim card can either be one from the US, a more expensive option, or a local sim wherever you are traveling to).
In Europe, especially UK, there are many cheap GSM sim operators.
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please note that most of the world is now based on GSM and Sprint is a CDMA based service. Once unlocked you would probably need a GSM sim card installed in order to use the S5 (this sim card can either be one from the US, a more expensive option, or a local sim wherever you are traveling to).
In Europe, especially UK, there are many cheap GSM sim operators.
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Yeah that's the plan for me to buy a local sim in that country so I can use the phone with a local number there. Do you know what bands the gsm works on?
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Yeah that's the plan for me to buy a local sim in that country so I can use the phone with a local number there. Do you know what bands the gsm works on?
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Depending on the country involved they use 900 and 1800 mainly but the s5 has all the bands used in Europe. Note that T Mobile is a major carrier so you should be ok with this phone if it is truly unlocked
I bought the Google variant and provisioned it on Verizon. I already have an activated prepaid SIM I've used for UK in the past.
Is it as simple as popping out my LTE sim and popping in the GSM one? Will I run into problems coming back to USA? (I will need my phone to be active as soon as I land at home so that I can get transportation to my house.
Hi folks. So I am on t-mobile but preordered the Samsung 256gb unlocked version. This is my 1st time ordering from Samsung directly as well 1st time ordering an unlocked device. Usually I just go into the t-mobile store or their website for any new phone purchases. Samsung offered some great trade in values on our S10's and some other goodies so we went directly with Samsung.
Dumb question but will I run into any issues with tmobile and this unlocked flip 3 or is it a simple insert my tmobile sim and off I go?
Phone tentatively arrives 9/21. Thanks!
Simply insert your sim and go!
I always buy unlocked phones, and the last three in the house are on T-Mobile, juts swap sims and you good to go.
The only thing you'll miss out on from T-Mobile is if you roam in a US Cellular area. Only T-Mobile branded devices have unlimited roaming on USC.
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The only thing you'll miss out on from T-Mobile is if you roam in a US Cellular area. Only T-Mobile branded devices have unlimited roaming on USC.
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Get the SIM and IMEI whitelisted and there will be no difference at all.
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I currently have a z flip 4 with us cellular and a pixel 6 pro on Verizon, I want to use my Verizon and us cellular number on the z flip 4, kinda like dual sim but the Verizon one as my eim but I keep running into roadblocks, Verizon says it can't be done without closing off my account and us cellular does the same anyone figure out how to get past this?
I am with US Mobile. ( Verizon's MVNO ) I activate my number with eSim with them to get up and running quickly. Then I am able to switch to the real SIM after I receive new SIM order. My guess doing reverse should be the same with US Mobile. I am not sure why Verizon not able to do this without closing account.
On tmobile they set me up to esim, no issue. VERIZON may not be fully supporting esim on androids yet, I had Spectrum which uses Verizon, and they could not set up my esim.
I was on Verizon since cell phones were invented (postpaid, prepaid, mvno), their service and coverage has gone way down hill, now I get 5g where I couldn't even get reception before. So much for keeping a loyal customer happy.
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On tmobile they set me up to esim, no issue. VERIZON may not be fully supporting esim on androids yet, I had Spectrum which uses Verizon, and they could not set up my esim.
I was on Verizon since cell phones were invented (postpaid, prepaid, mvno), their service and coverage has gone way down hill, now I get 5g where I couldn't even get reception before. So much for keeping a loyal customer happy.
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I've had issues with us cellular using an esim too because they want the physical sim to be the main sim card which I think is rediculous, and Verizon just keep giving me road blocks to getting the number ported