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01/10/2015 03:20:19 PM · #1 |
| So, I will be moving to Canada from the US in a few months, and we have cell phones that we'd like to bring with us. Do we have to jailbreak these things or is there a more legit way to break ties with our US carrier and transfer to a Canadian carrier? |
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01/10/2015 05:19:35 PM · #2 |
You should be able to call the provider and request a carrier unlock on the phone. I did that prior to a deployment and they unlocked it so I could pop in a local SIM.
If they don't use a SIM, not sure if any Canadian carrier will support that kind of network. They might though, worth checking with those carriers. |
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01/10/2015 07:39:43 PM · #3 |
Though not absolute, it largely depends on whether your current phone/carrier is gsm or cdma, and likewise for your future carrier. Easiest scenario is that you are on a gsm system (at&t, t-mobile). You could then simply switch out the sim card and replace it with your new, syrupy one... provided, of course, they allow you to unlock it. (I'd wager deployed military get a free pass on this.) You may need to buy out the phone balance if it's relatively new.
Verizon or sprint would be much more difficult if not impossible, depending on your phone. |
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01/11/2015 12:46:18 AM · #4 |
| Good info, thanks guys. We are through T-mobile, so yay I guess. :) |
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