GSM Operators in Belarus

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Originally Posted by Przemolog

Crazy? I heard that in USA there are such GSM phones, with "permament" SIMs...Could anyway confirm/deny?

We have something not so different from that here in Italy too... and with the newest operator, the 3rd Generation one: almost all 3's bundle kits with an u-sim and a phone are "sim-locked", not in the way it's intended in the UK, USA or other countries (i.e. you can use only the sim of that operator), but in a more strict way: you can use that phone with that u-sim only! That's for 1 year, from the 13th month you can use also other 3 u-sim, but not other operator's.

I know in the USA there are a couple of MVNOs which have something maybe even worse, Trafcone and Net10: you can use their simcard on their phones only, it doesn't work on other models...

And just to write something slightly IT: does my friend Alexander speak in Belarussian on his speeches? I think he speaks Russian, also his wonderful website is in RU and EN, not in BY like his opponent's...