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Anonymous
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I posted before that I am moving abroad and canceling att service. They charged me $300 early termination fee for two lines.
Fair enough, but now they won't unlock the iPhone so I can use it with a new provider in the new country! Anyone know of a reliable way of unlocking it so we can use the phones? Thanks. |
Anonymous
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OP, steal a phone much? Wow, shameless. |
Anonymous
| Steal? I am bieign charged a termination fee as part of the subsidy I received. |
Anonymous
| I don't understand this, what does the phone have to do with the service? What if you bought the phone at the apple store? This is so wrong but perhaps there is something I don't know. |
Anonymous
| Usually there are businesses abroad that will unlock your phone for you for a small fee. A friend of mine recently did that with an Iphone in Trinidad and Tobago. |
Anonymous
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Apple sells them unlocked now. The termination fee is charged because when I signed the contract they gave me an iPhone with a subsidized price. So their fee is to recover the subsidy since I am no longer udon their service.
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Anonymous
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Call them and say you wont be moving anymore and want to go back to their plan... after they do this, ask them to unlock your phone - if you are their client for at least 06 months they will do it. Then you cancell again.
GL. |
Anonymous
I understand the termination fee but you still own the phone so don't understand how they can make this inoperable. Clearly they did, I'm just trying to wrap my head around this because I was unaware this happened. I also got a discounted Iphone through Verizon so guess this would apply to me as well if I were to cancel. |
Anonymous
Because the phone is prgrammed to accept the narrow band of signals that your carrier owns. Unlocking it erases that programming. |
Anonymous
I am still on the plan until sept 19 and they refuse |
jsteele
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My understanding is that the OP is exactly right and AT&T simply won't unlock your phone. That's true whether you pay an early termination fee or fulfill your contract. I think this is a good opportunity for a class action lawsuit. The only alternative of which I know is to jailbreak your phone and then load software to unlock it.
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Anonymous
| ATT has horrible customer service when it comes to moving overseas and unlocking/ terminating service regardless of how long a person has been a customer or pays the termination fees. They even insist on keeping accounts "on hold" until you are due to return from overseas. I work abroad and had a horrible time w/ ATT the last time I was in the U.S. and so, for this this time in DC, I only have a cheapo "go phone" that I pay for by the month. Verizon isn't any better. The only mobile service that is halfway decent in this regard is Virgin mobile. ATT even gives military folks a hard time, it always takes forever to get a customer service rep who knows what they are doing. Good luck, OP. |
Anonymous
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Good lord...
Just Google it. People sell cell phones on Ebay all the time that need to be unlocked. |
Anonymous
Thanks genius, I hadn't thought of google. Geez. I just want a recommendation of a good way to do it. I've heard Gevey pro is a good one. |