sim card for Verizon
I do not know much about cell phones and I have called Verizon and a very nice lady told me to check this site out and ask my questions to get more responses, so here I go.
I was looking at getting a phone that works outside the US. I looked on Verizon's website for their world phones and there weren't that many to choose from. I was wondering if I could get any phone that had a SIM card and was tri- or quad-band and take it to Verizon to work with my Verizon service?
I never though Verizon worked with SIM cards but on their website it said that all their world phones have a SIM card. So I thought I may be able to just get any phone I wanted with a SIM card and it would work.
Thanks for you help!
I was looking at getting a phone that works outside the US. I looked on Verizon's website for their world phones and there weren't that many to choose from. I was wondering if I could get any phone that had a SIM card and was tri- or quad-band and take it to Verizon to work with my Verizon service?
I never though Verizon worked with SIM cards but on their website it said that all their world phones have a SIM card. So I thought I may be able to just get any phone I wanted with a SIM card and it would work.
Thanks for you help!
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may i ask where you are going? Many places like south america you might not need a sim
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I travel pretty much all through Europe, some places in South America (mostly Brazil), Thailand, China, and Australia.
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If you get an unlocked quad band phone, it MAY be possible to activate it. The phone must have an esn or meid to activate and even then the phone may have minimal (only domestic calls) or no functionality.
Customer service wouldn't be able to tell you for sure if it can be activated until you have the phone and activation is attempted. Try to make sure you can return the phone you get, just in case.
Customer service wouldn't be able to tell you for sure if it can be activated until you have the phone and activation is attempted. Try to make sure you can return the phone you get, just in case.
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No. Plain and simple. At this point VZW does not allow a person to bring gsm phones from other carriers to use on our network. The couple of phones that do support sim cards are pretty much it. Those phones (BB 8830, Motorola Z-something, and I think one other phone) are designed to support both CDMA and GSM. Unfortunately, you are kinda out of luck unless you want to purchase one of VZW global phones, or you can rent one as well for 3.99 a day plus per min charges. At least with that you would keep your number while you go overseas. Sorry I can't be or more help than this.
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No...you can not purchase a GSM phone and take it to Verizon Wireless. Not yesterday, not today, not tomorrow. You wouldn't have very good call reception on a GSM phone tring to use a CDMA network...it would be confused. You have a few options of phones as "vzwccc" mentioned...the Motorola Z6, BB 8830 an old samsung that was ugly and bulky and whatever else is to come. More models will be released as global soon.
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