You can get most of these phones unlocked from the sim lock and then <british>flog</british> it on ebay - goes to the time and effort costs of the aggrevation of dealing with mobile operators.
Regards, Neil. > > Now that AT&T has followed T-Mobile's example by screwing the > pooch on my cell phone billing, and I've flung yet another > SIM-locked Motorola V600 out the window of yet another moving > vehicle, and am about to enter into another year long "you > violated the agreement first" small claims battle, I need a > new GSM provider. I'm going to buy an unlocked tri-band GSM > this time. Anybody had notable (good or bad) billing and/or > customer service experiences with Voicestream or any other > GSM provider with native coverage in the San Francisco Bay Area? > > (If you reply privately to me, I'll summarize back to the list.) > -- > Paul Vixie >