Want To Know What Unlocked Cellphones Are?
Posted on September 6, 2007
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Advantages of an Unlocked Cellphone
There are some very good reasons why people prefer to have a cell phone that is not proprietary to a certain carrier. It allows an individual to buy a phone that they like that their service provider does not offer and use it on their current phone plan. The service providers feel that they must keep the phones they sale proprietary to their network because of the low cost of buying a phone when signing up for calling plan. Without keeping the phones proprietary the carriers feel they will lose money. This is not necessarily in the best interest of their customers as they don’t offer all the phones available on the market. The second advantage is that it allows a customer to be free of a service contract. They can purchase an unlocked phone and never have to resign a 1 or 2 year contract again. The third advantage is that you can often times purchase phones that are not even available in the United States and you would be able to use it with your current calling plan as long as the phones band is supported by your carriers network.
Disadvantages of an Unlocked Cellphone
There are some disadvantages to purchasing this type of phone. The first being that they tend to be fairly costly. In most cases you do end up paying almost the full price for the phone if you purchase one brand new, unlocked and ready to go. If you don’t purchase one brand new there are two other options. One being to ask your carrier to unlock your phone. They might do this for a service fee, but this does not always mean your phone will have full functionality afterwords. Some features of your cell phone make not work. The second being to hack your phone. There are many websites on the Internet that offer instructions on how to hack a mobile phone. This tends to be a very risky option because if you don’t know what your doing you can fairly easily cause your phone to not operate any longer. If you can get it to work properly this can be the cheapest option you have available to you. The highest risk offers this highest reward in this situation.
In the United States the only networks that operate on the GSM network are AT&T(formerly Cingular) and T-Mobile. If you use either of these networks as your service provider then you have the option for an unlocked mobilephone.
If you have any questions or comments please feel free to leave a comment and I will respond back. Here are some great options for buying unlocked cellphones.
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Hello, I am traveling to the Yucatan next month and due to family illness MUST be able to be contacted. I am told that if I unlock my prepaid cingular motorola it will work on the TelCel network in Mexico.
Is this true? Thanks very much for any info!