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Originally Posted by Rerun
I've never done anything to the phone since I bought it from Telus... so I assume its unlocked? Whats unlocked mean? Is this legal?
How do I unlock the phone? Once its unlocked and I take your suggestion and by a sim card in the Caribbean can I now use my phone to surf the web relatively inexpensively and make and receive phone calls from Canada relatively inexpensively?
By unlocking the phone, will this screw anything up? Will I still be able to use it with Telus once I get back to Canada?
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If it's an older Telus phone (greater than 1 year), it probably won't have a sim card. If the phone is CDMA (which is what all Telus phones without sim cards are) you may not be able to use the phone in the carribean at all for any price.
Here is the list of countires that you are covered in with a non-sim card Telus phone.
http://www.telusmobility.com/en/BC/c...coverage.shtml
Using your phone in any of these countries will, however, be extremely costly. Look for $8+ roaming charge/minute plus long distance fees.
Your cheapest option is to find an old GSM phone, and put a pre-paid sim card in it when you get down there. You will be assigned a local number on the sim card.
Edit: I just saw you are on a cruise. This means that you will be travelling between countries. A sim card you buy in one country will probably not work in another. In this case, you have no real cheap options to use your phone abroad.