Re: Just a simple question re the IPhone

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Corrected.

Begin forwarded message:

From: Dave CROCKER <dcrocker () bbiw net>
Date: February 5, 2009 4:49:49 PM EST
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:   Just a simple question re the IPhone



David Farber wrote:
> not t-mobile

Are you sure?  A quick google suggests otherwise:

    <http://thetravelinsider.info/2002/0308.htm>

    "T-Mobile has the fairest policy - they will unlock your phone 90  
days after you've activated service, and it is a quick simple process  
to arrange this to happen.  Apparently they only will unlock one phone  
per account."


<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2008/09/t-mobile_unveils_first_google.html 
>

    "* The G1, like the iPhone and T-Mobile's Sidekick, will have its  
SIM card slot locked to prevent the use of other carriers' subscriber- 
identity module cards. So if you don't like T-Mobile's network here or  
its roaming rates overseas, you'll either have to suck it up or hope  
somebody "jailbreaks" this phone in the same way that hackers have  
defeated the iPhone's SIM locking."


  <http://www.cellcorner.com/xshp/cell-phone-unlocking/1-unlock-tmobile-dash/ 
>




> On Feb 5, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote:
> David Farber wrote:
> > So I HAVE to use ATT or I have a brick. djf
> That's already true with most/all phones you get from phone  
> companies today.
> You buy a locked phone.  You have a contract.  The contract lapses  
> and service continues under the same terms.  The phone remains locked.
> In this respect, the iphone continues the long-standing tradition of  
> cell company customer lock-in for which the U.S. is, apparently,  
> famous.
> d/

--

 Dave Crocker
 Brandenburg InternetWorking
 bbiw.net




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