filipina cell work international?

[Bob and Liezl 0]

My fiance wants to know if she can still use her phone to text her family after she leaves

the country.

Anyone know about this?

Thanks

[john & jean 37]

Smart Bro sim card has that option.

[ManilaIdaho 2]

it'll work if it's dual or triband.i brought with me the cellphone that i was using in the Phils,i just bought a roaming Smart sim card,it worked in Taiwan when we had our lay over there and it's working pretty good here.

[sjr09 155]

My fiance wants to know if she can still use her phone to text her family after she leaves

the country.

Anyone know about this?

Thanks

I purchase a phone the last time in the PI and it works fine with both sims, Smart or T-Mobile

If your phone is unlocked and you find a carrier that uses sim cards like T-Mobile, then it will work. If I’m not mistaken with Smart you will need to go on roam for it to work in the US. Cell phones sold in the PI with dual/tri-band will work internationally with the exception of Japan, or so I was told.

[Scott and Mhay 57]

yes it will work, but she will have to talk to her carrier there and put her sim on roaming. smart has a pretty good roaming card. She may want to have that to just receive texts as it is more expensive to send with the roaming one than local carriers. Smart charges 20 pesos a txt or you can do a special deal that is a pain in the butt to use and it is 10 pesos a txt. Having the roaming text will make it cheapest for her family to txt her. The phone itself will work in the US. I think pretty much all the phones in the PI are unlocked (at least if she uses prepay like 95% of everyone there uses). I bought a quadband phone from there and it works great in the US and kuwait. It worked in japan on the way back too. (like it was supposed to)

[Otto 83]

Topic is not AOS-related, moving thread to "Moving Here and Your New Life In America" where it may be more appropriate.

[wasabi 4]

My fiance wants to know if she can still use her phone to text her family after she leaves

the country.

Anyone know about this?

Thanks

Filipino phones work but unfortunately Filipina phones are locked and cannot be used beyond Cebu City.

[tallcoolone 102]

My fiance wants to know if she can still use her phone to text her family after she leaves

the country.

Anyone know about this?

Thanks

Filipino phones work but unfortunately Filipina phones are locked and cannot be used beyond Cebu City.

Wrong. I have never seen a locked phone in PI

[tallcoolone 102]

Smart Bro sells a international SIMS card, Cost less than $5.

Have your girl bring her phone from PI, or buy a unlocked phone in USA. Insert the SmartBro Sims Card and she can recieve all the texts she want from PI for free.

My wife has MetroPCS in Texas with free unlimited calls and free text including International Text for $40 per month, and my wife can text back to PI on that phone each month

[sjr09 155]

My fiance wants to know if she can still use her phone to text her family after she leaves

the country.

Anyone know about this?

Thanks

Filipino phones work but unfortunately Filipina phones are locked and cannot be used beyond Cebu City.

Wrong. I have never seen a locked phone in PI

TRUE!

What's filipinio phone look like? LOL

Edited November 20, 2009 by sjr09