On 6/13/2014 1:38 PM, sf wrote:

> If I had a cell phone with a SIM card
> (which I don't), I'd have to surreptitiously unlock it to be able to
> switch out SIM cards for travel. We just bring the netbook and use
> that when we need to confirm reservations and Skype if we want to talk
> to family.
>
It doesn't need to be surreptitious - back when we had ATT, I asked them
for the unlock codes so we could use our new ATT-branded phones on
Orange in the UK. It took a week or so, but they emailed the codes to me
(at no charge), and it took no more than a minute to do the unlock.

We bought our current phones unlocked, from Google - they will accept
both our US (T-Mobile) SIMs, and our UK (Orange/EE) ones.