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5:07 am
March 27, 2013
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Im very interested in getting speak out wirless. The plans seem to make sense to me because I dont use a phone that much.
I have been given a iphone 3g by one of my kids. They have upgraded. To the latest and greatest. The phone was with rogers and is locked.
I have a number of questions regarding my move to speak out.
First I need to unlock the phone before I can use it. However I have tried several unlocking software's and it doesn't work. After some frustrating hours I think the reason why is because it has no SIM in it. I see varying reports on the net that you can or cannot unlock if it doesnt have a sim card.
I could buy a SIM card from SOW. but will that work ????
By the way and perhaps this should have been the first quiestion will this work with a 3G IPHONE.
Finally I see alot of people talking about cutting the sim card, is that something Im going to have to do. Do you have to do this to make it fit in the phone.
Im not a cell phone technophile so I dont know the answers to these question. Sorry they are not in better order.
Thanks all.
10:49 am
April 22, 2009
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Your Rogers iPhone 3G should work with Speakout with minimal modification. You do not need to unlock your iPhone 3G because locked Rogers phones usually work with Speakout. You do not have to physically modify the Speakout SIM, because the iPhone 3G uses the older SIM standard.
If you want Speakout's $10 Unlimited Mobile Browsing option, you might need to modify the iphone 3G's APN settings, but there is a good chance it will just work out of the box. Not a iPhone expert, so I do not have first hand knowledge on such matters.
11:18 am
March 27, 2013
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Wow, All this info is extremely helpful thanks.
I'm not sure what the unlimited browsing is bu if its Unlimited browsing for 10 a month that sounds like a good deal. I am not a cell phone expert but I wonder how the speak out card works with the Rogers 3g when I thought that's what locking a phone does. E.G. Stops carriers from using the phone?
I wonder then to test it out, can I buy a card, put it into the phone see if it works, if it does, then call SOW and get them to swap my number from rogers to the SOW Iphone. In other words rather than getting them to swap it before I change it, test it out first, then get them to swap it.
Soo understanding that your not a iphone expert but I wonder if I did want to unlock the phone, cause now apps are hard to find on the apple site for this old phone, If I did get SOW to work on the phone I wonder if then I could unlock it because now it has a card in it?
Regards
Thanks for the info
12:12 pm
April 22, 2009
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Rogers has a special arrangement with Speakout's parent company, Ztar, in that Speakout/Ztar can use Roger's network, and use locked Rogers' phones. Most other carrier's SIM cards will not work with Rogers phones. Though Rogers has similar agreements with some other companies as well.
A Speakout SIM card should cost you about $5 or $10, I forget the exact amount. A zero balance SIM will give you nothing but incoming texts and maybe voicemail, and you have 30 days before the SIM card expires. That should be enough to find out if the Speakout SIM works with your phone. You could also ask if you could borrow a friend/friendly 7 eleven employee's already activated Speakout SIM card. That your be easier, and cheaper if that is a possibility. I think you can get the Speakout SIM card free if you buy $100 worth of credit.
You should know that your account is tied to the SIM card, not the phone. So if you pull out the Rogers SIM card, and put in the Speakout SIM card, you are now on Speakout. You can go back to Rogers by swapping SIM cards again.
With Speakout, you will get assigned a random phone number from your area. You cannot pick numbers with Speakout. Usually the numbers are not pretty, because there is speculation these numbers are rejects Rogers does not want. You can port numbers from another carrier though.
If you like your old Rogers number, you can talk to a Speakout customer service representative, and ask them to port your Rogers number to Speakout. Do not call Rogers, let Speakout do the porting. It usually takes a couple of minutes to port from Rogers to Speakout. Once the port is successful, your Rogers SIM card will be deactivated and useless.
