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There’s still IMEI locks. A lot of prepaid carriers in Europe won’t or can’t sell you a SIM card for a US phone (one man claimed it was due to carriers trying t
by jdavis703 5y ago
There’s still IMEI locks. A lot of prepaid carriers in Europe won’t or can’t sell you a SIM card for a US phone (one man claimed it was due to carriers trying to reduce phone theft). Note, my phone was fully paid for, and therefor unlocked.
- rchaud 5y agoWith my Samsung Android phone I had to call my carrier's customer support and obtain the unlock code from them. So it wasn't unlocked automatically after it was fully paid for. When I traveled to Europe I just bought a local carrier SIM from a vending machine at the airport.
- Nextgrid 5y agoAutomatic unlocks is mostly an iPhone thing. iOS manages SIM locks differently (in fact on modern devices the modem itself isn't even locked, instead it's all done at the OS-level; Apple has a mapping of serial number to authorized carrier(s), to which the carriers can request changes remotely without having to provide an unlock code or requiring any user action).
- dkjaudyeqooe 5y agoI've never encountered this, which country are you talking about?