All three phones sold now sold unlocked

cgk1 · 29 May 2014 at 8:11AM

And if you have a Three phone already, take it into a store and they will unlock it for you:

https://twitter.com/ThreeUK/status/471888239813353472

Buzby · 29 May 2014 at 8:32AM

Good for them - now, if they would only bring their call centre back to the UK....

dealer_wins · 29 May 2014 at 9:19AM

Buzby wrote: »

Good for them - now, if they would only bring their call centre back to the UK....

I will say that compared to most foreign call centres, they are actually very good. Reasonably easy to understand, have a sense of humour and actually do what they promise!

I used Three about 6 years ago for an internet dongle and had such bad service I vowed never to use them again. It took a lot of persuasion from 2 friends who kept singing Three's praises for me to try them again last year when T-Mobile became virtually unusable.

I have been nothing but impressed with Three, both the service centre and the actual phone and data service which has been faultless.

Being an old cynic I'm sure it will change and go downhill as seems the case with many companies these days, but at the moment I am a happy chappy with Three.

d123 · 29 May 2014 at 10:06AM

Slightly delayed tweet by Three there, they have been selling unlocked phones (and unlocking for free) since at least mid March.

MataNui · 29 May 2014 at 10:55AM

Every phone i have ever had from vodafone has been unlocked (apart from my iphone). They even publish the details to unlock the bootloaders on some of their android phones to allow you to install custom roms and kernals.

corf999 · 29 May 2014 at 11:35AM

Their website still says the iphones are locked.

corf999 · 29 May 2014 at 12:31PM

yet a different part of their website says they are automatically unlocked when you activate them....

BadBehaviour · 29 May 2014 at 1:44PM

My S4 on contract was unlocked for free after submitting the request online and was done very quickly.

Handsome90 · 29 May 2014 at 6:02PM

I never understood the point of locking points. Clearly I'm in a contract with them and have to pay £xx per month even if I put a different network's sim.