The Reader

You seem to have your bases covered. You're completing the your contract and using the services with an iPhone. Unless they have some weird clause in the contract that we don't have on this side of the border.

Give them a call, and ask them.

Brent

Outside of Portland, OR,
on my 15" MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz, early 2008, Mac OS X 10.6.4,
& iPhone 3GS, iOS 4, nearby.

On Jul 28, 2010, at 5:04 PM, inphasefive wrote:

> I am in Canada, where the iPhone 4 is being released on Friday. Up here, you can now buy subsidized phones with a 3 year plan or factory unlocked at full price, approx $780. My daughter has a 3G with about 1.5 years left on the contract. (they stick us with 3 years, not 2 like in the US)
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> If we get the subsidized phone, we are stuck in a new 3yr plan. Of course there probably will be a new iPhone coming out next year. My thought is to buy an unlocked iPhone 4 and cut the SIM card on her 3G into Micro Sim size and put it in her new phone. I think the phone would work just fine, same phone number same plan and everything, am I right or is there a catch 22 that I don't know about?
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> The reason for doing this would be next year, when the next "must have" iPhone comes out, we would have a factory unlocked iPhone 4 which should not be too difficult to sell and we would be free of contracts.
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> Is there anything I am not thinking about?

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