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• How come? - Authored by: marcosdumay on Saturday, January 26 2013 @ 10:20 AM EST

Now, tell me again why they need to lock the phones?

Pay As You Go phones, however, would be a different matter. The handsets are subsidised (I lost my contract phone and the cheapest way to replace it was to buy a PAYG phone and stick my [replacement] contract SIM in it (my carrier actually suggested that!). However, I noticed that the PAYG phone was actually subsidised (to about 75%) so locking that to their network makes sense in that paying for access would cover that, and once that cost was covered, then they might unlock it (I have another PAYG phone on another carrier with exactly that condition: after so much credit has been put on it, they would be willing unlock it).

PS I'm in the UK, so technically, I should be able to get all my phones unlocked - just that there is no reason to as I'm very happy with my carrier.

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