Tweets for Today

[strredwolf]

• 06:25 #MTAMD Light Rail now stops at North Avenue, due to dwindling car supply. Expect shutdown of service soon! #
• 07:40 Gha! Bus canceled, can't make train! Kitteh late fer werk! #
• 08:35 Kitteh on LR, still runnin latez. #
• 10:19 Made it in 45 min late. #
• 19:42 Dear Sprint: Your phones don't work overseas. When are you going to join the rest of the world in using the GSM standard? #

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Comments

[kazriko.livejournal.com]

Here's another painful one.

The prepaid phones, and even most non-prepaid GSM phones sold in the US will not properly work overseas. Sometimes they'll "work" through expensive roaming and other nonsense like that, but if you wanted to buy a local phone card and drop it into your phone it will fail, because the phones are almost always carrier-locked in the US. Most of the time, in foreign countries they rarely have the kind of phone plans that we have, instead utilizing prepaid cards heavily.

Yet another reason to buy a throwaway local phone.

[kazriko.livejournal.com]

Solution:

I just saw someone with a Sprint Blackberry... World Edition. It's a dual tuner thing with sprint's network and with GSM as well for use in other countries.