If you love travelling for fun and the cultural experience that travelling provides or if you have to travel due to your job requirements, it is important to be well prepared for your trip. In our technology savvy world we rarely leave home without a cell phone. Moreover, when we travel, it is even more important to stay in touch with a family, friends and business partners. However, the cost of roaming charges is pretty high and plenty of travelers end up spending way too much money on international phone calls. Furthermore, even if you do not use your smartphone abroad, but forget to turn off data roaming on your phone, you may very well come back home to a very high phone bill.
That’s why it is highly recommended to buy an unlocked phone or if you already have a phone and want to use it every time you travel – you can easily unlock your cell phone. It is a high probability that your cell phone is locked to a particular phone carrier and can only be used with the carrier it has been locked to. On the other hand, unlocked phones do not have a lock and can be used with any network provider. Even if you happen to have a locked phone, as we already mentioned above it can be easily unlocked. Unlocked phones are quite useful when you travel abroad – you can just purchase a local SIM card, then insert it into your unlocked phone and immediately start making calls at cheap local rates.
When buying an unlocked phone or using your own mobile phone abroad after it has been unlocked, it is important to use these tips before using it:
1. Make sure that your phone is GSM compatible. The majority of countries use the GSM network. All GSM phones have a SIM card slot. If you use AT&T or T-Mobile as your phone carrier, your phone is GSM compatible. However, if your phone has been purchased through Verizon or Sprint, more likely your phone uses CDMA network. Usually CDMA phones do not work outside their coverage area due to a lack of SIM card slots and they are not compatible with GSM.
2. Check your phone’s frequency band. If your phone is GSM compatible, the next step is to check your phone’s frequency band. GSM phones use four frequency bands: 850, 900, 1800 and 1900. Different countries use different frequency band. Thus, before using your phone in a foreign country, make sure that it supports your phone’s frequency band. If you travel a lot, you may also buy a so-called unlocked quad-band mobile phone or “world phone” that can work in almost any country. For instance, GSM 900 and GSM 1800 MHz are used in the most parts of the world, such as Europe, Asia, Middle East, Australia and Africa. GSM 850 and GSM 1900 MHz are used in Canada, Mexico, the US and most countries of South America. In order to check what bandwidths your cell phone supports, type your phone’s model number and its make into your search engine to check for your phone’s specifications and then search what bandwidth is supported in a country you are planning to travel to.
3. If you want to use Internet on your phone, make sure that your phone has data access or Wi-Fi compatibility.
4. If your phone only plugs into 110 V power sockets, you will need to buy a power converter before you travel to a country that uses different voltages for their electrical outlets. For instance, in Japan, North America and the northern parts of South America are 100V-110V used, when the rest of the world uses 200V-240V. However, most devices, which are primarily meant for travelling, such as tablets, phones, laptops and etc. usually are able to use the full spectrum of 100V-240V. Just make sure that your phone’s charger says: 100-240V Input and you can use it literally anywhere with a right adapter. Adapters are devices that adapt the mechanical shape of a plug and quite useful while travelling.
5. When you buy a local SIM card for your phone, do not do it in the airport because the cost of SIM cards in airports are significantly higher than in regular electronics stores.
We hope that these tips will help to make your travel less stressful and worry free and will also allow you to save some money.
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After your SIM network unlock PIN has been sent to you, just enter it into you cell phone to instantly unlock it and begin enjoying all travel benefits of unlocked phones.
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