<div dir="ltr">When my two-year contract was up with Verizon, I switched from my Droid Incredible with Android 2.3 to an LG phone running ICS with MetroPCS with a $55 unlimited talk/text/web/data plan. The $55 was a special they were running at the time last fall. While the 4G hotspot isn't officially part of that price plan, the hotspot worked out of the box and I tether it judiciously when I need it. IMHO once Metro and T-Mobile have completed their merger, "T-Metro" (as I've seen posters elsewhere refer to them as) will hopefully be a strong contender for non-metered unlimited with a stronger combined 4G LTE network in the future. <br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Horkan Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@horkan.net" target="_blank">ale@horkan.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
FWIW, I used my Droid 3 in Italy last summer w/ a 3rd party SIM. At the time, I was still using the stock ROM. The process wasn't as clean as I would have liked (I had to reboot the phone sometimes to get it to find a tower), and for my short visit it actually ended up cheaper to use Verizon's services w/ the Verizon SIM. FYI, the Droid 3 is listed as a Global phone and has a SIM slot - other Verizon phones may behave differently.<br>
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We did have to call Verizon first to get 'em to both unlock the phone for alternate SIM use (and the phone apparently still rejects US-based towers, btw.) We also signed up for a Global plan amendment and paid a seperate fee for a better global voice and data plan. Customer service was pretty helpfull in getting it all set up.<br>
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My wife's iPhone 4GS behaved similarlly to the Droid 3, if I recall correctly - I didn't experiment with it as much. The Global unlock was more of a pain here - had to wipe and re-install from iTunes. (For the Droid 3 I put in the foreign SIM and got prompted for an unlock code.)<br>
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The Droid 3 only used the SIM for GSM mode BTW - it works just fine w/out it here in the US. It's only a 3G phone, so I can't comment on 4G behavior.<br>
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later!<br>
horkan<br>
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:15:28AM -0400, Michael Campbell wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > FYI: The (fairly) new Motorola Razr M model at Verizon uses a SIM card<br>
><br>
> I think the SIM part of CDMA-only phones (not sure if the Razr M<br>
> qualifies there) is for the 4G functionality. You can't, as far as I<br>
> know, use the phone on another network simply by changing SIMs.<br>
><br>
> (If I'm wrong here someone please tell me so I can be less stupid<br>
> today than I was yesterday.)<br>
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