Samsung Galaxy 4

[The_Munchmaster]

I have employed a new mobile phone consultant to avoid confusion when buying a sim card.

 

How many SIMs did you buy, quite a few I expect?

[baa99]

Maybe an employee interpreting company policy as law. Go ask at an electronics store.

 

I bought an unlocked iPhone 4S from Apple when they started selling them unlocked. Had a family member then ship it over to me in Japan. Then I just put the SIM in and it worked fine.

 

Here's the thing though. In my experience, if you show up at SoftBank with an unlocked phone and want to start a plan, they will refuse and tell you that you have to get a phone from them. It's BS but that's the way they work I guess.

 

When I got my unlocked 4S I had already had iPhones on SoftBank for over 2 years so I didn't tell them squat. I got the new phone in, took the SIM out of my SoftBank locked iPhone 4 and put it in the new unlocked 4S. If I would have asked them if I could do that, they probably would have told me no.

[think_too_mut]

Maybe an employee interpreting company policy as law. Go ask at an electronics store.

 

Of course it's a law. Breaching it can see you fired. And for what? To have an unnecessary gadget that does nothing for me, have to fight, smuggle, lie, be a criminal...just to make a phone call?

[Mekong]

This sounds more like Softback company policy than law.

 

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1368919

[think_too_mut]

Not reading any links.

 

Softbank's policy is one thing, Corporate policy is another, the governing one.

 

Perversely, all three, DoCoMo, Softbank and KDDI (Au) have bought about half a billion US of my gear to accommodate for iPhones (and Galaxy) and all the junk ("surge of data", they call it, fine) that goes with that.

[Hamokhamok]

You have to love those consultants.

[radioman]

I'm looking at this from outside so please excuse. I'm also on a weekend furlough in Dubai with all that entails, but here's the thing. Fact 1, you have a company provided phone. An arrangement that seems to disagree with what you want in terms that, it's not the phone you would choose, that's fact 2. Fact 3, you have a desire to change it but cannot as a result of company and supplier restrictive practices.

 

I suggest the following course of action in flowchart softdick(ware) manner:

 

1. Do what company says, say yes sir, thank you sir, and shut the fuck up. OR

2. Get a real job with a real company that gives you a.. Blackberry??? OR

3. Wake up! Seriously dude! Contract yourself. Dictate your own terms and get whatever you want/need.

 

N.B. The term 'contract' can, without prejudice, be exchanged with whore as necessary.

 

N.N.B. The term 'without prejudice' here refers to the literal rather than 'Res Judicata' the legal.

[bust]

You have to love those consultants.

Yes I have several to accomodate all my needs

[Hamokhamok]

Bust:

 

They'll bend over backwards to help you.

 

Like all consultants, just tell them the answer you want to hear and they'll do the rest.

[think_too_mut]

I'm looking at this from outside so please excuse. I'm also on a weekend furlough in Dubai with all that entails, but here's the thing.

 

2. Get a real job with a real company that gives you a.. Blackberry??? OR

 

When I think, I left IBM for this place. Now I have to think what a "real" company is.

 

A "Two man & wheelbarrow" type of organization that lets you use your own phone for their business?