Prepaid Phones

Just canceled my mobile phone with Telstra and will pay out the contract.
Now I wish to go a prepaid phone and was wondering if I can use my current
mobile Sony EricssonWalkman W810i and how would I do this ?

Thanks

Will_S

will_s wrote:

> Just canceled my mobile phone with Telstra and will pay out
> the contract.
> Now I wish to go a prepaid phone and was wondering if I can
> use my current mobile Sony EricssonWalkman W810i and how
> would I do this ?

As far as I'm aware, Telstra don't lock the phones they sell on
contract (unlike their pre-paid phones) So you should have no
problems using a pre-paid SIM from any network. A pre-paid
starter pack should get you going. You might be able to borrow
a SIM from someone using the network of your choice, just to
prove the phone isn't locked.

If you want to use the phone for data (rather than just voice
and SMS), make sure that's available with the starter kit you
buy. You might also need to tweak some configuration settings
to use non-Telstra data services.

John

"John Henderson" <jhenRemoveThis@talk21.com> wrote in message
news:672s1sF2n6cqkU1@mid.individual.net...
> will_s wrote:
>
>> Just canceled my mobile phone with Telstra and will pay out
>> the contract.
>> Now I wish to go a prepaid phone and was wondering if I can
>> use my current mobile Sony EricssonWalkman W810i and how
>> would I do this ?
>
> As far as I'm aware, Telstra don't lock the phones they sell on
> contract (unlike their pre-paid phones) So you should have no
> problems using a pre-paid SIM from any network. A pre-paid
> starter pack should get you going. You might be able to borrow
> a SIM from someone using the network of your choice, just to
> prove the phone isn't locked.
>
> If you want to use the phone for data (rather than just voice
> and SMS), make sure that's available with the starter kit you
> buy. You might also need to tweak some configuration settings
> to use non-Telstra data services.
>
> John


Thanks