Comments on: More GSM Unlocking fun http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2005/02/17/more-gsm-unlocking-fun/ Whee. en Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:31:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.2.2 by: Mark Miller http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2005/02/17/more-gsm-unlocking-fun/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:10:10 +0000 21:33@http://www.anatifero.us/weblog Reminds of when I got some Cingular phones for my grandparents, and asked them whether or not the phones were unlocked. They claimed they were. So I stuck in a Virgin Mobile (from UK) SIM, the phone claimed it was locked. They didn’t know what to say. Luckily, they were Nokias, and there is a good little piece of software to generate an unlock code based on the IMEI. Of course, I later returned the phones when I discovered that Cingular does not allow multiple area codes on the same plan. They’ve taken a step backwards since AT&T. Nationwide Network my foot. Reminds of when I got some Cingular phones for my grandparents, and asked them whether or not the phones were unlocked. They claimed they were. So I stuck in a Virgin Mobile (from UK) SIM, the phone claimed it was locked. They didn’t know what to say. Luckily, they were Nokias, and there is a good little piece of software to generate an unlock code based on the IMEI.

Of course, I later returned the phones when I discovered that Cingular does not allow multiple area codes on the same plan. They’ve taken a step backwards since AT&T.

Nationwide Network my foot.

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