Now, tell me again why they need to lock the phones?
So that when you go over the minutes/texts/internet you've paid
for (in your contract) they can sting you for more at a premium price.
Pay
As You Go phones, however, would be a different matter. The handsets are
subsidised (I lost my contract phone and the cheapest way to replace it was to
buy a PAYG phone and stick my [replacement] contract SIM in it (my carrier
actually suggested that!). However, I noticed that the PAYG phone was actually
subsidised (to about 75%) so locking that to their network makes sense in that
paying for access would cover that, and once that cost was covered, then they
might unlock it (I have another PAYG phone on another carrier with exactly that
condition: after so much credit has been put on it, they would be willing unlock
it).
PS I'm in the UK, so technically, I should be able to get all my phones
unlocked - just that there is no reason to as I'm very happy with my carrier.
[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|