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Thread ID: 78972 2007-05-04 06:37:00 Importing a CDMA cellphone. Marshman (7857) PC World Chat
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546821 2007-05-04 06:37:00 If I buy a CDMA cellphone from either Australia or Indonesia how do I go about activating it to work on the Telecom 027 Network?. There must be a techy out there somewhere that can do this...please. Marshman (7857)
546822 2007-05-04 07:30:00 You can't.
It's something to do with stopping people getting free phones on a subsidised plan in one country and then taking them to a second country where they are expensive and flogging them off.
decibel (11645)
546823 2007-05-04 11:16:00 call Telecom??? or go to one of their stores??? beeswax34 (63)
546824 2007-05-04 11:38:00 decibel has already given the answer, nothing any of the stores can do except sell you another phone. PaulD (232)
546825 2007-05-04 14:14:00 If I buy a CDMA cellphone from either Australia or Indonesia how do I go about activating it to work on the Telecom 027 Network?. There must be a techy out there somewhere that can do this...please.

I think it has to be "unlocked", in which case you can program it like any phone.
george12 (7)
546826 2007-05-05 23:08:00 Nothing to do with unlocking. CDMA phones aren't like GSM where you can insert a local sim card. The network has to allow the phone to connect and Telecom won't do that unless you are a genuine roaming customer from overseas. Is a new handset worth maintaining an account in another country? PaulD (232)
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