A:Answer What I recommend in your situation is that you visit SafeLink's web site, and using the Support link, entering your zip code, you should see a list of devices available through SafeLink. If you choose Android as your operating system, and then scroll down, you should see the TCL A1 provided in the list. This means that the TCL A1 is a GSM compatible phone that can be used with SafeLink. Now SafeLink is either associated with, or a subsidiary of TracFone, so any GSM compatible phone offered by any of TracFone's many different brands, like StraightTalk, TracFone, TotalWireless, and SimpleMobile, should work with SafeLink. Unfortunately there is a catch.
The catch is that while you can "bring your own phone" to SafeLink, you need to get a new SIM card from SafeLink for your phone, and install it, before you can use it as a SafeLink device, which according to SafeLink means that the phone must be unlocked. A locked phone can only be used with a specific carrier, like Verizon, and an unlocked phone can be used on Verizon or AT&T, as an example. The first thing you should do is contact SafeLink to ask if a SimpleMobile phone can be unlocked to be used with SafeLink? Since TracFone is involved with both services, it may be possible to unlock the phone, or at least learn if the SimpleMobile TCL A! is locked or not before buying it. It all comes down to whether the phone is locked before buying it, and how hard it will be to unlock it if it is locked. If you want to avoid any headaches, contact SafeLink first, or consider buying the same phone pre-configured to use their network.
