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leibniz
Joined: Mar 04, 2003
Posts: 102
From: Western Canada
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Hey y'all. I have a nice K750i that has been a great phone.
I find myself displaced to the USA for work. I'll be here a while. My phone works great - but I'm roaming, so it's expensive. I'm trying to find a good way to circumvent those LD / roaming costs.
Does anyone know if the K750i is capable of working with multiple phone numbers? i.e. if I could get a local phone number here, could I configure my phone to accept either number? (wouldn't have to be at same time.)
Does multiple phone numbers imply different/multiple networks or network profiles?
What I want is a "local alias" phone number, so that I can make/receive calls as local while I'm here. Essesntially, I think the phone would have to recognize itself as a local number in order to "stop roaming".
I know cell phones are cheap, and I may just go out and get another one, but then I'm carrying 2 phones - kind of annoying/cumbersome.
Any thoughts/ideas?
I'm on Rogers in Canada, but currently my signal is being picked up by Cingular.
Thanks.
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Sammy_boy
Joined: Mar 31, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: Staffordshire, United Kingdom
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Simply buy a local pay as you go sim card, and as long as your phone is unlocked to any network, all you need to do is put the local (US) sim in the phone and power it up as usual. Obviously, if you wanted to use your original sim card you'd have to turn the phone off, swap the sim cards back and power back up again.
Not sure what the US mobile market's like, but I'm sure you can go to a phone shop and buy a local sim card cheaply.
"All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke
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leibniz
Joined: Mar 04, 2003
Posts: 102
From: Western Canada
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Hmmm... good idea. Thanks!
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hampad
Joined: Jun 21, 2005
Posts: 196
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u can use a dual sim card holder, i think theres a thread oabout it here somewhere. dont know how good they are but i think it will satisfie your need. | |
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Posted: 2006-05-01 18:35
