Mobile Phone question

[bol1]

Hi,

In a few weeks I will be spending several weeks in Southern CA. I've decided that my best option for phone contact will be to use my UK based mobile (cell) which works worldwide and is unlocked. I just need to purchase a local SIM card and use pay as you go.

I started looking arround for options and found one potentially useful one by Verizon and emailed them for clarification on the rates. I received a rather garbled stupid response from them which said something along the lines of "you cant use a SIM to convert to Verizon frequencies". Does anyone know anything about this? Does Verizon have their own unique frequencies or are Verizon phones built so they cannot accept other SIMs? To clarify I have a multi band phone which is unlocked and I have used it in US/Canad before.

Also are there any pay as you go plans that do NOT charge for incomming calls? This is an anoying catch which does not exist here in Europe

Thanks

Mike

[Snurfen]

As long as your phone is tri-band (if bought in the UK) wil be just the job with that Verizon sim.

SoCal huh? Jammy bugger, I'm working in Swansea for the next few weeks :(

[bol1]

well SoCal is flippin hot right now but beats this silly summer here I suppose.
Yep triband purchassed here. But someone once showed me a Verizon phone in CA which had no removable sim. May have been an older model though

Mike