Re:Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S.
by rapind on Thursday January 24, 2013 @06:10PM
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FYI Chatr is a Rogers subsidiary. They created it specifically to compete[1] with the other cheap services like Wind and Mobilicity. This is why your iPhone works, because it's on the same Rogers network.
[1] Some argue that the only reason they created Chatr was to drive the smaller guys out of the market.
Re:Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S.
by graeme on Saturday January 26, 2013 @09:50AM
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Yeah, I expect that's why they did it. Or at least to keep people in the Rogers ecosystem.
A lot of the smaller guys didn't work in my area, or on my iPhone.
I just wanted to highlight that a big company encourages you to unlock your phone and deface their sim cards. Chatr reps directed me to the sim cutter.
Re:Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S.
by Ntrails on Friday January 25, 2013 @09:19AM
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It's funny how different the implementations are, I could never understand on my trips to Canada how a mobile phone could have an area code.
Now, we have our own peccadilloes in the UK. "Free-phone" numbers are expensive from a mobile. Special cheap 'local rate' phone numbers for businesses cost a fortune.
But yeah, that seemed just nuts.
Chatr doesn't sell microsims. So at the mall, there is a kiosk that will legally cut the chatr sim for $10. Chatr encourages this.
This plan works even if I travel to another city, as long as its a major center.
No contract. They're actually illegal in Quebec. Instead, companies offer the same agreements to consumers, and conscmersd just have to pay back part of the phone price if they leave early.
If you have a discounted agreement that doesnt include a subsidy, you can leave anytime you want.