Read more.And Ofcom is looking to make broadband switching between networks easier.
Read more.And Ofcom is looking to make broadband switching between networks easier.
Whelp, about a million "unlock your phone" stores are about to suddenly feel a dent.
Tbh, it should have happened donkeys years ago.
[GSV]Trig (28-10-2020)
Just means they'll find more insidious ways of filling your phone with cack.
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Originally Posted by Mark Tyson
I thought the networks had already decided this and stopped locking the phones at least 5 years ago anyway, but as the article states, apparently there were still a few doing it for some reason.
Some networks would lock phones when you put their SIM in, get a nice new shiny unlocked phone from Apple, put a certain SIM in it and it would lock to that network..
Rather naughty.
I would have thought locked phones these days were really only going to the seriously unready and ill-prepared buyer.
I mean, my tech background is pretty good, but I'm a smartphone neophyte. Until earlier this year, I had managed avoid getting one at all and my knowledge of smartphones could be, well, written on the pointy end of a very sharp needle, using a 6" paint brush. My previous mobile phone's fanciest feature was having about 10 'memories' for fast dial.
So I approached buying one with probably less phone knowledge that the average 4 Yr old, and WAY less than a 10 Yr old, and even I knew better than to buy a locked phone (unless I had a really good reason for doing it deliberately, which I didn't).
Took little, too late, from OfCom. As usual.
A lesson learned from PeterB about dignity in adversity, so Peter, In Memorium, "Onwards and Upwards".
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