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"Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> |
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Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: OT?? cell phones |
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Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:13:56 +1100 |
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Ray Davison wrote:
Ed Durrant wrote:
Generally Cell providers will unlock phones from their network, often for a fee, if the phone is out of contract (i.e. you have paid off its value over a period of time, often 2 years). Whether AT&T are "forced" to do this for you may depend upon the contract that you signed with them.
I bought the phones, and not from a phone company. I have never actually had a contract with AT&T. I had a contract with Cingular that expired long before AT&T took over. It was cheaper to buy new phones than get a new contract, because the deal I have is no longer offered.
I'll try AT&T and see what happens.
Is there anyway to know if a phone is locked? Does an AT&T logo at start necessarily mean it is locked?
Ray
No the logo does not infer locked. I have a totally unlocked phone here provided by Telstra (the largest telco in Australia - in someways similar to AT&T (previously having had the monopoly) but with more advanced technology, That has a Telstra logo at boot up bit I have been able to use it on at least three different networks by swopping the SIM.
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Ed
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