I want to use my phone in Canada, what do I do?

[rydah805]

Originally Posted by imnuts

Sprint may have a roaming agreement with Telus, so you may not have to do anything for it to work. Otherwise, you'd have to try to get Telus to put the ESN into their database and port your phone onto their system. The other option would be to get a SIM card from one of the GSM carriers and use your phone in GSM mode.

+1 to that!!!

[p-slim]

Originally Posted by rydah805

+1 to that!!!

i'm pretty sure telus is like verizon and sprint, they do not just accept any cdma phone. With sprint only sprint phones work, Telus is the same way.

[rydah805]

Originally Posted by p-slim

i'm pretty sure telus is like verizon and sprint, they do not just accept any cdma phone. With sprint only sprint phones work, Telus is the same way.

true, but there are some companies that can use other cdma carrier branded phones, not all but some. my friend had his sprint tp 1 on metro piece of sh!t . but i was '+1 ing' the part about using a sim card.

[amd4me]

I tried putting a Bell SIM in my phone and it doesnt work at all. Any suggestions?

[mstevens]

Originally Posted by amd4me

I tried putting a Bell SIM in my phone and it doesnt work at all. Any suggestions?

1) Are you sure your phone is set for either GSM Mode or Global Mode?
2) Are you sure your phone is not able to receive any signal from US-based carriers (i.e., you're not right on the border)?
3) Have you checked to confirm the SIM works in another phone?

I recently got back from Mexico, where my TelCel SIM's worked fine in our TP2's. When the phones were in Global Mode they wanted to use the CDMA signal that was available where we were (and would have resulted in large roaming charges on Sprint) but in GSM Mode everything worked as planned.