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I'm going abroad for a few weeks, and I want to be able to use my Windows phone for internet access without incurring enormous costs. At the moment, it's locked to O2, but I understand that it's fairly simple to unlock the handset and then use a foreign pay-as-you-go SIM to connect to mobile internet cheaply.
Are there any downsides to unlocking the phone (apart from invalidating the warranty)? And should I expect to pay to get the unlocking code?
Thanks.
Are there any downsides to unlocking the phone (apart from invalidating the warranty)? And should I expect to pay to get the unlocking code?
Thanks.
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I went abroad recently with my mobile. Before I went I had it unlocked for a few quid in a few minutes in our hight street. Bought a SIM at the airport when I arrived, it worked fine.
But when I went into a rural area there was no signal at all, despite the fact that other people had perfect signal with the same provider!
Eventually I sussed the problem. My phone works on 900,1800 and 1900 frequencies. In the UK we use 900 and 1800. But the country where I went uses 1900 in cities and 850 in rural areas. So I had to buy a local mobile phone which cost around $35,000.
You need a phone that works on all the frequencies you may need where you are going, as I have now realised.
But when I went into a rural area there was no signal at all, despite the fact that other people had perfect signal with the same provider!
Eventually I sussed the problem. My phone works on 900,1800 and 1900 frequencies. In the UK we use 900 and 1800. But the country where I went uses 1900 in cities and 850 in rural areas. So I had to buy a local mobile phone which cost around $35,000.
You need a phone that works on all the frequencies you may need where you are going, as I have now realised.
$35,000
35 thousand dollars for a mobile, think they saw you coming
35 thousand dollars for a mobile, think they saw you coming
it was the cheapest, some were much more, over $100,000
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Have a real holiday and leave your phone at home.
I dare you.
Have a real holiday and leave your phone at home.
I dare you.
Contrarian, what country are you going to? (I assume abroad is somewhere else other than the UK)
Ok, I cannot help with that. Good luck.
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