On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 20:22:43 +1000, Peter Webb wrote:

3. Of all the things to buy overseas, a mobile phone looks one of the
stupidest. You get the best prices if you buy a handset "locked" to a
local operator (telco), but such a handset is useless outside of
Australia. One of the very few items that you can buy in Australia that
you can be guaranteed will not work anywhere else in the world (a cheap
and hence locked mobile phone).

Until you get it unlocked. Costs about a fiver. Loads of places do it.

Jason

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