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Originally Posted by Effendi
Your +423 won't work in Vermont until FL1 decides to have an agreement with Unicel, but I fear it will never happen. But it will work with no hassle everywhere there's a network with roaming agreements.
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Thanks. This is what I thought was happening, but Unicel was so adamant about it that I thought I would check it out further. I guess I should never have accepted the word of a (seemingly) teenage sales rep! For what it's worth, though, she also said that they expect to be part of AT&T within the next few months, so there may be hope yet.
In the end, it's not that I
need to use the SIM card here in the U.S. It would be expensive to do it, but I thought it was the best way to keep the card active. According to UM's policy, the card has to be "used" every nine months or it will expire. I generally only travel abroad in the summer, so that presents a problem.
Instead of making an occasional short call, I can add money to my account online to keep it active, but $30 is the minimum amount and since I mainly use it for free incoming calls, it doesn't make sense to accumulate $30 credits to it every nine months.
If I can get it to work somewhere else in the U.S. that'll be good enough. I'll give it a try this weekend in New Hampshire, and I'll be in PA in a few weeks time...
One last thing. I was interested in one poster's comment about Nokia phones being problematic with callback services. I can still return the Nokia phone I bought and exchange it for another. How are the Motorola's for call quality and battery life?