Paul, My recent, but not 'cutting edge', US cell phone worked fine in New Zealand and Australia. I just had it unlocked from my carrier in the US and then bought cards over by you guys. It might be a cheaper option to upgrade your phone over there, have it unlocked, and just buy the sim cards. How many cally you gonna make? Regards, Bob S.
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Paul Ewins<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > my girlfriend and I are heading off at the end of the month on a six > week trip to Hawaii, New York, Montreal and the south-east of Canada. Rather > than use global roaming and risk large charges from our local (Australian) > carrier what we have done in the past is buy a cheap phone or a SIM card > when we get to our destination and use a pre-paid account. > > It looks like my antique Nokia is incompatible with US frequencies anyway, > so the plan is to pop into Walmart and get a cheap pre-paid phone there. Is > it safe to assume that any carrier with coverage in Hawaii will have > coverage in New York? Once we get to Montreal I assume that we will have > to get a new SIM card, and possibly a new phone if the Walmart one is locked > to the carrier. Or is their a carrier that makes swapping from the US to > Canada easy? > > If you have any recommendations or a better plan I'd love to hear it. > > Paul Ewins > Melbourne, Australia > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
