Carriers Have to Unlock Eligible Phones Beginning Today
ROFL
>>Prepaid devices will be unlocked no later than one year after their initial activation date.
Prepaid customers pay full price for their phones. What possible justification could there be for keeping a prepaid device locked for even one day? Furthermore, why should they even be locked in the first place? This is a joke.
Prepaid customers pay full price for their phones. What possible justification could there be for keeping a prepaid device locked for even one day? Furthermore, why should they even be locked in the first place? This is a joke.
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stolen/hacked bank accounts or cards i would think most likely
if you need it unlocked your better off getting it through the manufacturer
if you need it unlocked your better off getting it through the manufacturer
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The manufacturer will lie to you and say they cant unlock it, and refer you back to the carrier.
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It isn't a lie, the unlock code is something added to the phone by the carrier, the manufacturer has nothing to do with it, and they don't have it. The only place you can get the code is from the carrier, because it is their code.
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The carrier doesn't have the unlock code, they have to submit to get it from the manufacturer, which is why it is a lie when the manufacturer says they cant unlock it and refers you back to the carrier. They put the subsidy lock on the device, at the carriers instruction.
I haven't contacted any manu's directly since this law changed but that is the way it has been for many years, not just in the US but in the UK as well.
I haven't contacted any manu's directly since this law changed but that is the way it has been for many years, not just in the US but in the UK as well.
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The carrier does not contact the manufacturer to ask for the code, the carrier has a database filled with all the unlock codes that it consults....it takes all of 30 seconds to enter the IMEI into the computer and retrieve the unlock, from the carrier's own database.
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Unlocking phones is a common practice among identity thieves already. I fail to see how this could possibly be a deterrent to anything but the average joe's rights to his personal property.
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Zpike said:
Prepaid customers pay full price for their phones. What possible justification could there be for keeping a prepaid device locked for even one day? Furthermore, why should they even be locked in the first place? This is a joke.
This is not 100% accurate. While many prepaid devices are purchased at full price, it has been and probably still is a common practice for prepaid devices to have a low subsidy, expected to be made back from the often much higher rates that are charged for prepaid service (especially when it is a per minute or per megabyte charge.)
With the subsidy model in the United States changing in the past few years, I would expect that prepaid devices will be sold at full retai...
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