i bought a cellphone here in the states, can i also use it to any other country like philippines?

Answer 1

depends if its an open line.. then you can use a local sim card for that.. or you can still use your service provider on roaming...

my husband uses his phone with a smart sim in the philippines and switches back to cingular when he's back in the states...

Answer 2

It depends! because there many phones in the Philippines that doesn't work no matter what because of the software that is needed to program it. The reason is because USA and Philippines have different frequencies which can greatly affect the program of your phone especially the signal. Voda phones are good examples of that. Try asking your service administrator before bringing your cellphone in the Philippines.

Answer 3

It relies upon on what variety of fall down...If that's a head on melancholy or in hassle-free terms a hiccup of a recession. the two way, the Philippines (like all different united states of america) is heavily based on the USA. seem what got here approximately while the plain recession hit the Dow, while it fell, the pse fell...problematical, so far shares could no longer get well by way of fact of all the internal and exterior factors. The exterior factors are heavily motivated by utilising the states, as an occasion, assuming it reaches area of melancholy, it might give up importation of the two products and immigrants, as a result we loose our greatest figuring out to purchase and advertising considerable different and between the main important supplies of the remitances that now variety a considerable area of the financial device... i think of we would be heading nowhere so at as quickly as we does no longer even notice that our financial device had already collapsed... I mean we've not even recovered completely by way of fact the 1997 financial disaster...(i think of) the united statescollapse might deliver a fall down of the worldwide financial device... If the united statesfinancial device might fall down...this is

Answer 4

Is yours a GSM phone as most Asian countries use the GSM mobile standard? If it is a GSM phone, is it a triband or quadband phone as different frequencies are used in different countries.

Don't know about Philippines but in China, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong or Taiwan you can get a local SIM card which is good for local calls. If you really need a cellphone, secondhand mobiles can be easily bought.

Answer 5

Previous answers can help. You also have to make sure that your cell phone service provider has not "locked" your phone. If so, you cannot use it except on their system; ask them to unlock it due to international travel. SIM cards can be purchased and placed in the unlocked phone. A quadband GSM phone should work in The Philippines, China, etc., but will not work in South Korea or Japan, which have different systems.

Answer 6

yes you can as long as it is no longer the us-cdma-type that some still carry over but those capable of g3, gsm, gprs, mms. and if the phone is unlocked, or made open to international service then you can choose whether to use your carrier's service (signals bounced back to mainland and back again to rp) and pay accordingly or just change sim card and use local rp services and rates. lastly, do not forget that you can use it only if you have it - keep your phone with you or within sight at all times

Answer 7

It depends on the cellphone brand and service..some only have range in the u.s while others work in foreign countries..

Answer 8

it better be unlock and best to buy the Sim card there for The cheaper rates over there.

Answer 9

you would have to contact the carrier that the cell phone is from and see if you can get an unlock code for it... or.. get an unlocked phone from somewhere like ebay..

Answer 10

yes as long as it's not locked with a network there abroad.