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Will Galaxy Note 2 from Sprint work on Verizon network?

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Hi, Will Galaxy Note 2 from Sprint network connect to a Verizon network? I heard that SCH-I605 model is a Verizon one. How do I know that it supports LTE? I heard that it is best to Buy from USA. I read too many horror stories of international with invalid warranty. Will SPH-L900 work on Verizon as well? Thanks in advance
 
What idiot told you to is best to buy a phone in the USA, and why would you listen to them? I am American, and I own four phones. Not one was bought in the USA because of the issue of USA carriers locking their phones.

Also about half the carriers in the USA are CDMA. That standard is not used in most of the world.

Your phone is nothing more than a wifi tablet if you buy it in the USA and are no longer with the carrier who sold it.

Indecently locking is illegal in most countries. That business practice is largely a USA thing.
 
There is a busy high street business here in the UK for unlocking phones so you can switch networks, but all the networks here are GSM. It costs between
 
In the USA it was illegal to unlock them for a while. I planned to start a business illegally unlocking phones when and if I ever return to California. No I would not do it for the money. I would do it because the law was unjust.
 
I don't understand this - the US passed a law to say it was illegal? How many people haver been prosecuted for unlocking their phones?
 
ifb-online said:
I don't understand this - the US passed a law to say it was illegal? How many people haver been prosecuted for unlocking their phones?
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Most likely none. The legal system in the USA is so broken. Laws are enforced based on politics, career advancement, and revenue. For example, if you are an illegal alien from Mexico, you can drive in Arizona with no tags, throw litter out the windows of your car, and illegally shake buildings with 15" sub woofers in your car. Why? Simple, if you are pulled over you will be sited. But wait you owe for the las time you got pulled over. so they have to arrest you and tow our car. But you still have no money to pay any of the fines. You will sit in jail until they run out of room, and let you go. It cost the tax payer too much for the police to bother with you, so you just go about doing as you please.

Now lets say I start unlocking phones illegally. It is not a violent crime, and the amount of money involved means it is not a felony. Being a federal law, how much would it cost the feds to prosecute me? Most likely far more than the maximum fine. It is not a career making bust for some prosecutor, so what is the motivation to bother to enforce the law? There is none, so I could advertise on a TV if I wanted. No prosecutor would waste his or her time because it is not worth it.

The law is no longer anyway, so no big deal.
 
But why would it be illegal in the first place? Is it simply down to contracts? Does the handset remain the property of the carrier? In that case I can see a little logic. Here in the UK, people can usually do what they want with the handset if it was supplied by the carrier - all they are interested in is that you pay your monthly fee on time.
 
The unlocking laws really have nothing to do with this.


That's really gsm phones only, because they use sims.

CDMA don't use sims, and are locked to a network
 
An unlocked CMDA phone can be used with a any CMDA carrier so long as the frequencies the phone work on are correct, and the network codes are set. You can in fact use your locked CMDA phone in Taiwan, but you will pay about $100 a min to Sprint, or Verizon.

As for why they lock phones, true it relates almost %90 to GSM. T-Mobile wants you to pay their inflated roaming fees when you travel. They do not want you to buy a SIM at 7-11 during your vacation in Taiwan. In almost every country SIMs can be purchased just about anywhere. That is why the law was lobbied in.

Almost all modern GSM phones, and about half of all CDMA phones work internationally assuming the country has the appropriate network in place. for example, my old Verizon phone worked just fine in Taiwan.

Sorry about the soapbox but governments and I have never seen eye to eye on laws. Once you travel you see just how unjust laws are passed to favor corporations, and generate revenue. For example, why is Aspirin illegal in some countries? Simple, because it is too cheap. It competes with local brand name over the counter meds that cost much more. The law is lobbied in to make sure most everyone buys the ten times more expensive band name drug.
 
ifb-online said:
But why would it be illegal in the first place? Is it simply down to contracts? Does the handset remain the property of the carrier? In that case I can see a little logic. Here in the UK, people can usually do what they want with the handset if it was supplied by the carrier - all they are interested in is that you pay your monthly fee on time.
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The carrier finances the phone. That is why a $600 phone only costs $100 when you sign up for two years. The carriers say locking insures you pay your bill. That is the excuse anyway. They can "brick" the phone over the air if you fail to pay anyway so what is the point in locking it?

They lock them to force you to pay them for roaming internationally.

That is why I only buy GSM phones. I buy them outside the USA. I only buy quad band. Some even accept two SIMs so I can get messages on my regular carrier, and make calls using a local pre-paid SIM from 7-11.

Again what I am saying is less meaningful on a CDMA phone. It is harder to move them between carriers, even if the phone is not locked, simply because the NAM and other parameters must be manually entered.
 
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