Thanks for the excellent suggestion. Please tell me where one can buy unlocked phones and how do we know they are unlocked?
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For years I kept on renewing my cell phone plans with the carriers and felt like I had no other choice. Recently I have been checking out eBAY and wondering why anyone would not just buy an unlocked cell phone and go that route. True, buying phones in the retail level costs more than with a plan, but at least you are not limited to the phones the carriers offer, but to many different phones. This is spaecially true with GSM. They seem to have so many phones out there.
One can buy an unlocked tri-band or quad-band GSM cell phone and try different carriers by buying a sim card with the prepaid plans. Try it out for a month, and then try with a different carrier. If you want one of their plans, you can get that with probably 1 year contract rather than a 2 year contract.
I think this is what I will do in the future, in 2 years time as I recently signed all my household's 4 phones to a new 2 year contract.

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