There might be a charge for unlocking from your carrier, though, even if your contract is up. rogers tried to charge us fifty bucks for this.
Just wanted people to be aware, just in case. Cait On 2013-10-11, at 5:07 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ray, > > With the iPhone you have to ask your carrier to unlock it for you. If you > are with AT&T you can call them and ask, but I am not sure if they do it > while you are under contract. If you are past your 2 years I believe they > are obligated to unlock the phone for you. From what I heard they send > instructions after they do whatever it is they have to do on their end. You > then have to hook your phone up to iTunes and do a restore and once this is > done you should get a message that your phone is now unlocked. > > When are you going to England and for how long? You can reply direct, > [email protected]. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Ray T. Mahorney > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 1:22 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: using the IPhone as a local phone in the UK > > Guessing that in order to do that I am going to have to get an unlock code > with other phones I have had that unlock was based on the IMEI code. Does > the same hold with the IPhone? > > > Ray T. Mahorney > WA4WGA > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
