Unlock T-mobile iPhone?

JazF

Interesting. So my husband has an Iphone 4s on a T-Mobile contract bought from Affordable Mobiles.
When his contract expires he will have to stick with T-Mobile if he wants to continue using his iphone?
This has made me think about whether to purchase the Iphone 6 from a third party. Have seen a good deal with Vodafone but then I will be stuck with them.

wongataa

JazF wrote: »

Interesting. So my husband has an Iphone 4s on a T-Mobile contract bought from Affordable Mobiles.
When his contract expires he will have to stick with T-Mobile if he wants to continue using his iphone?

No. If he wants it unlocked he puts in a request to T-Moble to unlock it and pays the fee.

grumbler

http://ee.co.uk/help/getting-started/joining-ee/unlocking-your-phone

JazF

bignred05 wrote: »

Tmobile (EE) will only unlock your iphone if you purchased it from Tmobile (EE) and they charge £15 for it

I know this as I recently tried this myself, and Tmobile would not unlock my iphone4, as I bought if from a third party (smartphonestore)

Even though he did not buy it directly from T-Mobile??The above seems to suggest differently.

gjchester

JazF wrote: »

Interesting. So my husband has an Iphone 4s on a T-Mobile contract bought from Affordable Mobiles.
When his contract expires he will have to stick with T-Mobile if he wants to continue using his iphone?.

No

He can pay the £20.42 to TM and get it unlocked for any network.

JazF wrote: »

This has made me think about whether to purchase the Iphone 6 from a third party. Have seen a good deal with Vodafone but then I will be stuck with them.

In most cases an iPhone from anyone but Apple will lock to the first network SIM put into it. CPW even say this on their pages.

Vodafone will unlock it free, see https://www.vodafone.co.uk/vodafone-uk/forms/unlock-code-request/ but you must have had the phone and contract a year for it to be free.

d123

JazF wrote: »

Even though he did not buy it directly from T-Mobile??The above seems to suggest differently.

Considering that poster can't even get the price right do you really think you should pay too much attention to what he says?

ristekocev

is possible to be unlocked iPhone locked on EE Uk network by imei code and to be used on any sim card you will like. I use this service unlockiphonesim.co.uk and my iphone 6 is be unlocked for 5 working days.

gjchester

ristekocev wrote: »

is possible to be unlocked iPhone locked on EE Uk network by imei code and to be used on any sim card you will like. I use this service SPAMMING and my iphone 6 is be unlocked for 5 working days.

And let me guess you own the site.


The iPhone CANNOT be unlocked by any IMEI type code, it can ONLY be unlocked by the network that unlocked it requesting the change on Apples server.


The only way a non network source can unlock the iPhone is getting an accomplice (or themselves) to enter the codes on the networks account with Apple. While unlikely to be found there's always a risk it could be detected and the phones re-locked.

marty2be2000

Yes he is the site owner, the site has just been registered so another one to avoid.

Domain name:
unlockiphonesim.co.uk

Registrant:
riste kocev

Registrant type:
Unknown

Registrant's address:
<I've removed part of the address to keep privacy intact>
radovis
Macedonia/Radovis
2420
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of

Data validation:
Nominet was not able to match the registrant's name and/or address against a 3rd party source on 02-Jun-2015

Registrar:
Name.com LLC t/a Name.com, Inc. [Tag = NAME-COM]
URL: http://www.name.com

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 02-Jun-2015
Expiry date: 02-Jun-2016
Last updated: 02-Jun-2015