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I bought an unlocked P900
and I can get a never used SIM card with some money on for free
but I think that card could have been bought in a sim-locked deal.
So now I wonder how phones are sim/network-locked
does they read from the sim when start and get locked?
Cause if that is the case I do not dare to try that card.
(Yes I used the search before writing this and didn't find anything
if it has been answered before a link to that thread is sufficient as answer)
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Posted: 2004-02-16 13:25:27
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The sim-lock issue is always a phone stuff.
The phone is simlocked using the ID from that sim.
The are some ways of getting the phone locked to the first sim entered in the phone, but i think that's always an order placed on the phone rather than the sim.
Bottom line is, I THINK, the phone won't be locked putting the sim on it. Locking is always a phone's matter, the sim can't force it to lock.
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Posted: 2004-02-16 13:39:38
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I always thought that the phone got locked to the sim through the networks branding of the phone as some networks CUSTOMISATION of the phone locks it and others dont
Edit:Got it the wrong way round
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[ This Message was edited by: welsh uk on 2004-02-16 13:06 ]
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Posted: 2004-02-16 13:46:45
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On 2004-02-16 13:46:45, welsh uk wrote:
...I always thought that the sim got locked to the phone...
No!No!No! It's the other way around.
The PHONE gets locked to the sim.
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Posted: 2004-02-16 14:00:09
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