Thread: Can I Activate DATA Plan and switch to N900?
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texaslabrat is offline texaslabrat
2009-09-23 , 20:27
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Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
True, but then he cannot use the SIMlocked phones anymore, and his provider can find out he uses a different phone than the one they gave him a subscription for. If they care to sell different data plans for different models of phones they will also care to check to make sure you don't trick them. Else its kinds pointless... so he needs to play nice with his provider, or take risk that they not check IMEI... or just get a new SIM only with data plan and N900.
Who says he can't use it anymore? He could easily transfer his SIM back into it (if he wanted to for some reason) or put another SIM from the same service provider in it and it will run just fine. Just because YOUR provider imposes some kind of restriction on SIM swapping doesn't make it the norm for the rest of the world

As for "playing nice with the provider else take the risk etc etc"...well, if they are going to check the IMEI as a matter of policy it's going to happen no matter what. Playing "nice" or "naughty" will have the same conclusion since it's not related.

The BEST course of action is to find out what the provider's policies are ahead of time and make a plan around that, rather than relying on theoretical conjecture on what "could" or "might" happen based on the experiences from people who live on different continents