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Posted by: deadtorights

Hi,
i was planning to buy an unlock iphone with the firmware 1.1.1
It seem that Iphonesimfree work very well (http://www.iphonesimfree.com/cgi-bi...e.pl?page=home). Currently I'm on bell and will be switching carrier. I'm going to buy the phone soon. So how do i start? I just go to rogers, port my number in and ask if i can get a simcard? Won't he ask me why? Like why u want to buy only the simcard? Well i was planning to say cuz my friend bought me a BB for rogers. So i just need the simcard but what happen if he ask me the serial number of the phone. what do i do then... Also I'm guessing the plan i need is a data plan. I can't use a Mega Time & easy4U Plans. So what choice I got? I live in montreal. Can i go with a Business Plans or a BlackBerry Plans ? I'm a student...
Thanks

Posted by: pepper99

It's none of their business why you only want a SIM but no phone - just tell them that's what you want, and that's that.

...but that said, if you plan on sticking around for a while and are willing to go on contract..why not take a phone and resell it?

As for the data plan situation, look around the forum here - there's lots of discussion on that matter already... ($65 for 1 Gig plan is what you'll want...)

Posted by: deadtorights

I don't really need a good data plan cuz mostly i'm gonna use the wi-fi at home or school.

Posted by: carisma

i thought ver 1.1.1.1 can't be unlock . Can anyone confirm if this version can be unlock for sure cuz if it's true I'm going to ask my buddy pick it up one soon at apple store then i unlock it. Perhaps all of thir stock has ver 1.1.1.1 now .

Posted by: computergeek541

I can't remember if it was on howardforums or if it was on craigslist.org but I did read that someone was claiming that it is now possible.

Posted by: pepper99

Its all over the Mac and iPhone related websites.. TUAW.com for example.

Posted by: deadtorights

ya
check that web site they unlock it and any phone what was brink can be use again http://www.iphonesimfree.com

Posted by: Red Setter

1.1.1 can be unlocked with IPSF and still retain all it's functions. Tutorials are all over the web and the reseller should have instructions as well.

As for activating on Rogers: They will give you just a sim if you ask, but as has been said: why not take one of the freebie handsets they give with activation, assuming you're getting a contract?

Or, you can do what I did on Rogers: Buy the one year renewal pay as you go SIM card. No contract and several plans you can choose from. The card costs about $25 and then you fill it with however much you want.

Posted by: deadtorights

the thign is i'll try to contact Rogers customer service and check if they can do something cuz with bell I got 250 min, unlimited weekend, unlimited weekday starting from 6pm to next day (forgot the hour), unlimited incoming call, Caller ID, voice mail, unlimited internet,100 txt msg, 5 video.. Something to match that. But i know data doesn't work with internet, so i probolly have to take the 10$ 10 mb plan...I don't mind to go on contract.

Posted by: Red Setter

I switched from bell to Rogers for my Canadian cell usage a few years ago. I found Rogers to have a better deal.

No Canadian carrier has decent data though, which is why I use a PayAsYouGo on my iPhone when I use it in TO. That way I can't do too much damage

Posted by: shadow_cruiser

Bell has the best data (in ontario) if your on a corporate plan. At least I and many of my coworkers used to have unlimited data. Unfortunately, they have some of the shittiest phones.

Get the Rogers vision plan, its the most affordable data plan on Rogers. You get 10mb per month for $5.

Posted by: lightbulb

You might have to "sweet talk" one of their CSRs but I went from Bell too and got:
200 minutes anytime, VM, CD, unltd. evenings from 6PM & wknds, 150 (?) txt messages, 100 Canadian LD minutes and unltd. local Rogers network calling for $32 + saf. It would have been $25 w/o the Rogers network feature. I just added the 10mb vision plan for $5; with all the wifi around me, I hope it'll do the trick withoud paying for the 1 gig service.

Posted by: marktang

u just ask them for a sim card and they ask u if u want a plan or prepaid with it. they dont ask question of why u want to just buy a sim cuz alot of ppl just get a sim card to use anyways. that's how GSM works

Posted by: Red Setter

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Originally Posted by marktang

u just ask them for a sim card and they ask u if u want a plan or prepaid with it. they dont ask question of why u want to just buy a sim cuz alot of ppl just get a sim card to use anyways. that's how GSM works

Rogers is cool that way. I just went to a Rogers store, asked to buy a SIM, they charged me $25 (I think) and then asked me what I wanted to do with it when I activated it.

As I said - I went PayAsYouGo since I didn't need a second contract but I could just as easily have taken a plan

Posted by: deadtorights

if i talk to a CSR they will put me on contract that for sure to have a plan that i want. Well i can sacrifice some few thing on my plan like remove the 100 min long distance call. I really don't use it. But then again I still have to wait 1 month before i really can use the iphone Cuz i have to give bell 1 month notice that I'm leaving and tell them to hold my number and not deactivated it. Then i have to purshase my iphone of the net. But i'm still scare that Rogers will have the phone soon and I'm buying a unlock phone and the price could be lower... the reseller i'm buying cost like 599$ unlock and activate ready to be use..There also some custome douane tax to pay like 50 $ more.. I'm wondering when rogers relase it, it would be cheaper to buy from them then to but it from a reseller.. I didn't want to use ebay cuz the price are to expensive... well some of there aren't but i don't trust them even with a good feedback they have.

Posted by: marktang

i think u wont see the phone with rogers anytime soon. apple will announce it for sure if rogers is going to have and even that would be a few months before they sell it

Posted by: deadtorights

That the thing. You don't know when it will come out.. it could be tomorow, a week, 1 month you never know and i might make the wrong choice and pick the unlock one instand of buying from rogers... although i hear the second gen. of iphone coming if they announce it to macworld. I read it in one of the forum. Then again I don't want to wait that mush cuz I really want it but i'm scare making the wrong choice

Posted by: Red Setter

Ah yes, the game of LIFE. So many choices so little time...

Posted by: deadtorights

lol true that. 50/50 chance :P To wait or not