<p>Have any of you had your cell phone ‘unlocked’ so it could work on a different company’s network? If so, did you take it to a place to do it or did you use one of the online services saying they can unlock the phone by sending an unlock code by email? Or, did you send the phone to one of the companies that offers services online? I’ve seen them advertise as low as around $5 per phone to unlock (by sending a code via email) but I’m sceptical of some of these places.</p>
<p>I have some T-Mobile Moto V600 GSM phones I’d like to unlock so they’ll work on AT&T’s network. I might also want to unlock some AT&T Moto V3I phones.</p>
<p>I have unlocked AT&T phones by simply calling AT&T - customer care can give you the number assuming that the phone is out of plan (e.g. if you bought it with a subsidy and a 2 year contract then the contract must have expired). Took me perhaps 5 minutes per phone.</p>
<p>I probably should have tried to unlock the T-Mob phones before I switched away from them to ATT. I wonder if they’d still be willing to do it even though I no longer have an account with them.</p>
<p>I tried to unlock some very old t-mobile phones so that we could get SIM cards for our most recent europe trip. They refused to unlock them since it had been more than 90 days since my mother had cancelled the contract (it had been more like 6 years), and it took me 40 minutes on the phone to get that answer. They sent me to Samsung to unlock the phones, but the samsung customer service people were talking to me like I was crazy and that they had never heard of being able to unlock the phones and that I would need to talk to tmobile. It really sucked because when we gave up tmobile you couldn’t bring your number with you when you switched carriers, and I don’t think many people were talking about unlocking phones. It also meant more phones into landfills since the phones are currently totally useless if they can’t be unlocked-- if we were ever to switch to tmobile full time we would want new phones, and we had to buy new GSM phones.</p>
<p>If you are traveling in Asia, buy a phone here (ask for one that will work in the US). People here are stunned when I tell them that phones in the US are ‘locked’ by the service provider.</p>
<p>^If you buy a cell phone in Asia meaning to use it here make sure it is tri or quad band. We bought a cheapie that was dual band only and can’t use it here.</p>
<p>I recently had a razor from Canada unlocked by some cell phone dealor in Chicago. It cost about $15. I didn’t know we can have our Cingular (At&T) phones unlocked after our plan finished, else we would have done it. Now we are in the market looking for an unlocked phone so we can travel with it.</p>