This is the key to unlocking all phones on every network, more and more people getting angry about this completely unfair practice. In a great piece written by Mike Elgan of Computerworld, he headlines with Forget the iPhone, all phones should be 'unlocked'
The iPhone is shaking up the industry in a lot of different ways, but for my money, the most important is this idea that expensive devices we buy are tied to one network and are useless if we leave that network. This is an absolutely ridiculous practice that I have written about plenty in the past. But the iPhoneDev team, AT&T, Apple and the desire for those to own the iPhone is really bringing this cause to the table.
---The iPhone is and will be sold through a single carrier in each of the countries where Apple chooses to sell it. In some countries, such as France, locking is illegal. Apple announced this week that Orange SA will be the exclusive iPhone carrier in France and will sell a locked iPhone, plus a more expensive unlocked iPhone in that country.
This stark fact makes it clear to everyone that locking and unlocking is a mere carrier choice, a deliberate snippet of code whose sole purpose is to limit your freedom and choice so the carrier and handset maker can make more money.
Apple isn't alone in locking phones, either. U.S. carriers vary wildly in the degree to which they lock phones.---
Very good article, take a read, get angry and join the fight to stop this US Carrier practice.
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