Wireless woes

A couple of months ago, in preparation for this trip, I switched from Bell Mobility to Rogers Wireless in order to enjoy the GSM standard used in Bangladesh and most of the world outside North America.

Several of our team members, including me, were assuming we could buy a SIM card for our Rogers cellphones in Bangladesh, which would have greatly reduced the cost of calls between team members while in that country.

Unfortunately, we have discovered that Rogers Wireless does not allow their subscribers' phones to be "unlocked" in order to permit this. On the Rogers network, the mobile phone is locked to its [Canadian] SIM card, so all our calls will effectively be calls to Canada, even though both parties are in the same city in Bangladesh.

One of our team members thinks texting might be a solution. Sounds promising, but we'll see.