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Do any cell phone cos. let you BYO phone w/o contract?
#1
I know they use to let you bring your own unlocked GSM phone and you could just buy a SIM card for $60 and not have to deal with a contract. Does ATT/Cing or T-Mob allow this anymore or is everything contract now?
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#2
Never heard/seen/read of that.
Pay as you go?
Is that what you speak of?

BGnR
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#3
No regular post paid service. I did it with my Sony Ericsson P800 w/ T-mob back in '03. The phone was a Euro only phone, but I was in love with it and a local company had an unlocked one in stock for below street so I bit. T-Mob made me buy Sim card but didn't have to do a contract since they didn't subsidize the phone. That was way before the pay-go services became popular. The cell industry has changed a lot since them, which is why I'm asking.
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#4
That's a good question, of which I don't have an answer.

However, I use Cingulars' GSM system and I've changed phones a couple of times in the past year, without it affecting my service contract (or need to extend it).

Once you have a phone with the SIM card, all you need to do it pop it into another phone and you're good to go.

My phone needs are very modest, i.e. I don't like phone cameras, blackberries, voice mail and much of the bells and whistles, so I buy those Cingular GO Phones, toss the SIM card that comes with the phone, insert mine and WhaLa! New phone!

All for about thirty bucks.
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#5
[quote Chupa Chupa]No regular post paid service. I did it with my Sony Ericsson P800 w/ T-mob back in '03. The phone was a Euro only phone, but I was in love with it and a local company had an unlocked one in stock for below street so I bit. T-Mob made me buy Sim card but didn't have to do a contract since they didn't subsidize the phone. That was way before the pay-go services became popular. The cell industry has changed a lot since them, which is why I'm asking.
I have been T-Mo since 2K, never heard of it.
After my contract expired after the first year been month to month though for about six years.
I have always purchased phones from CL or others, T-Mo doesn't do much subsidizing, not like Sprint.

BGnR
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#6
Before GSM, the cell company Beyond Wireless would let you do that with TDMA phones. They HAVE gsm service now. So, it would not surprise me if they would let you do that, still.
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#7
When I called about a year ago, neither Verizon or Cingular would do that for me.
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#8
Just called Cing. No go with them. They want a 1 year contract for post paid. I'm sure T-mob is the same now too. Not sure why they don't do that anymore or don't allow int'l roaming with their Pay-Go service.
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