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Re:Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S. by rapind on Thursday January 24, 2013 @06:10PM (#5112870)
FYI Chatr is a Rogers subsidiary. They created it specifically to compete[1] with the other cheap services like Wind and Mobilicity. This is why your iPhone works, because it's on the same Rogers network.

[1] Some argue that the only reason they created Chatr was to drive the smaller guys out of the market.

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Re:Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S. by graeme on Saturday January 26, 2013 @09:50AM (#5120456)
Yeah, I expect that's why they did it. Or at least to keep people in the Rogers ecosystem.

A lot of the smaller guys didn't work in my area, or on my iPhone.

I just wanted to highlight that a big company encourages you to unlock your phone and deface their sim cards. Chatr reps directed me to the sim cutter.

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