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Ah good old AT&T with the sleazy shit Technically it’s not a SIM lock (also called carrier lock) in the traditional sense, AT&T calls it the carrier visibility

Ah good old AT&T with the sleazy shit Technically it’s not a SIM lock (also called carrier lock) in the traditional sense, AT&T calls it the carrier visibility or carrier reveal program. It’s a BS name because it doesn’t just hide other carriers from the carrier select screen, it also actively prevents eSIM activation via QR code etc. And if you need help from AT&T CS 9/10 have never heard of this term. For all intents and purposes it’s basically just an eSIM specific SIM lock. But you (and anyone reading this that runs into the same issue) can use the “carrier visibility/reveal” terminology to get the issue resolved faster in the future.

joshstrange 3y ago
> Technically it’s not a SIM lock (also called carrier lock) in the traditional sense, AT&T calls it the carrier visibility or carrier reveal program. Yes, I forgot to mention that but I did know it at the time (I still have a doc with all those terms in it that I used when talking to the reps) and yes, almost no one knows what you are talking about. Even when I got someone to “put in a request” (which didn’t work) they sounded skeptical about what they were putting in a request for. It didn’t feel like they knew what I was talking about. The only people that did use that term or understand it (other than the rep that contacted me after the FCC complaint) were the forum support but they told me the iPads weren’t in their system.