I am about to share with you the greatest travel tips related to using your cell phone abroad. More specifically, I want to share with you exactly how you can avoid and get rid of any roaming fees you would pay with a BlackBerry Curve. I personally use the BlackBerry Curve 9300, the first Curve 3G phone that Research in Motion – the developers and manufacturers of BlackBerry have created to date. I am sure there will be more Curve 3G phones that RIM introduces, so if you are reading this years from the post date, please bear with me. The same rules apply for any BlackBerry smart phone and all other GSM cell phones.
In short, the way you can avoid paying roaming fees with your BlackBerry Curve 9300 is to unlock BlackBerry Curve 9300. You may have heard of this if you are an avid traveler or a tech guru, but I will tell you that you do not need to be either of these to unlock your BlackBerry Curve 9300. All you will need is this article which will help you save an infinite amount of money on wireless roaming fees. In fact, I am going to show you exactly how you can get rid of them and what you need to do to accomplish what I have been doing for the past 5 years. This is no secret, but it is something that should be shared with the rest of the world, hence, this blog post.
In order to unlock your Curve 3G, you will need to first purchase a BlackBerry Curve 9300 unlock code. The prices range anywhere from $15-$30. The company that I use to get this is Cellfservices simply because they’re fast, the prices are very good and they have the best customer support I have seen from a BlackBerry unlock codes distributor. There are other companies out there, but with the high degree of unreliability with online companies, I have found this one and stuck with them since. Basically, after you unlock your Curve, you are essentially removing the carrier restriction which will allow you to use your BlackBerry Curve on any GSM network of your choice. For the technologically advanced people, you can probably see where this is leading.
After your carrier restriction, better known as the SIM lock has been removed by an unlock code, all you need to do is travel to your next travel spot and find a cell phone provider store there. It’s not very hard to come by these. Just like you would find your various cell phone provider shops in your home country, it is the same in all other countries. After you arrive at your cell phone store, you just need to purchase a SIM card which ranges between free – $10 and then go on a pay as you go plan. Pay as you go plans are as simple as they sound. You literally just pay as you go. You add on x number of dollars onto your SIM card and have it activated in the store. Insert the SIM card and you are good to go. You will have a local cell phone number as well as the local carrier rates. I can guarantee you that all of these local carrier rates are significantly cheaper than your regular carrier’s roaming rates even with roaming plans. A lot of these carriers also have prepaid data packs which are extremely helpful for BlackBerry users. You can access all of your e-mails, keep in touch with your BlackBerry messenger contacts and do anything you would normally do at home without being the face in your local newspaper for being the guy or gal who was charged $30,000 from their network carrier in roaming charges. All of this from 1 simple cell phone unlock code.
It’s not much of a secret, but it’s a hidden treasure that not enough people are taking advantage of. Make sure you that you are taking full advantage of this and get your unlock code for BlackBerry before you take off for your next travel destination. It is the absolute cheapest way to save a fortune on wireless roaming fees and again, you will completely eliminate your roaming fees and never see a single charge on your wireless bill for roaming since you are technically not using your home carrier’s services. You are using a local cell phone carrier’s service and you will pay them before you even use their services. This is a completely legal thing to do announced by the communications department in Canada and the United States. Be wise with your money and you’ll definitely be a happy traveler.