Re:Starting today, wireless carriers have to unlock your phone
by gambiting on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @04:55PM
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In Poland all phones have to be sold without a simlock. Doesn't matter if you are on contract or not. The world still hasn't collapsed, people on contracts continue to pay for them, nothing has changed.
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Re:Starting today, wireless carriers have to unlock your phone
by fpgeek on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @09:42PM
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Also true in Singapore.
Some contracts can be nastier (e.g. no early termination, just pay the rest), but that may just be an unrelated local difference (I've seen the same thing with residential ISP contracts, where there isn't a SIM-locking equivalent).
Re:Starting today, wireless carriers have to unlock your phone
by yabatopia on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @08:24PM
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Same thing in Belgium. Simlocked phones are illegal, even subsidized phones are unlocked. Of course, the phone subsidy is much lower than in countries that allow simlocking.