It’s a long story but last Friday, I drove the kids to Jackson, left Ryan with Chris who took him to Fort Wayne to spend the week with his grandparents, and I drove Chris’ carpool coworkers home. So I’m chatting with them and I mention that I had just bought a new cell phone but I had to switch carriers from AT&T to Sprint in order to get the phone I wanted. And Chris’ coworker says to me, you can buy Unlocked Cell Phones that work with any carrier and all you have to do is take the SIM card out of your current phone and put it in the new phone and you are all set.

I did some poking around on Google trying to figure out exactly how Unlocked Phones work, and I have to admit, I don’t quite get it. I mean, I understand taking the SIM card out of one phone and putting it into another one, but what I don’t get is this. Let’s say I had done that, bought an Unlocked LG Rumor, taken the SIM card out of my old phone and put it in the Rumor. It would just keep working with my regular AT&T phone plane? AT&T would just keep billing me? Is it the SIM card that tells AT&T that the phone is in use and how many minutes are used, and all that? I don’t plan to buy an unlocked phone, but now I’m just determined to understand how it works! Anybody have one?