Moving To Us - Cell Phone

[christhenation]

Hopefully someone out there knows - I have a newish Blackberry phone that's functional in Thailand. I've been away from the US telecom dance for almost a year and a half and was wondering if I could get service in America for this Thai phone using a sim card without signing a contract. Do you know how/where to do it there...and if I need to unlock the phone here or anything?

Thanks. Clueless, so tons of details would be great!

Christopher

[ozymandious]

what is your Blackberry Model #?

As a general rule the phones sold out here are unlocked.

Having a SIM card means that your mobile is a GSM standard Phone, meaning that if you go back to the states you have only 2 options for cell coverage AT&T or T-Mobile (Verision and Sprint use the CDMA standard)

for a quick cheep test to see if your phone is unlocked, barrow a friends SIM card from a different service provider, slap it into your phone and see if it works.

If it doesn't, there's loads of phone shops that offer 'un-locking' services.

I've taken my phone to the states and used both AT&T and T-mobile's services they both work fine, I just walked into a store and said I wanted to get a pre-paid SIM Card and compared to see who gave me the better offer RE Time/money