A guide short about your mobile phone and wireless provider.
These days, most mobile phones come “locked” to a particular network (i.e. T-Mobile, Cingular, Orange, Vodafone, Rogers, etc). This means that you will only be able to use your cell phone on the network from which it was originally purchased. For example if you purchased a phone from T-Mobile and later wanted to change your service provider to Cingular, your new Cingular SIM card would not work in the mobile phone you bought from T-Mobile.
This can be annoying for many reasons. It can get very costly if you have to buy a new cell phone every time you change wireless service providers. If you are a frequent traveler your roaming fees would cost you a fortune. For the bargain subscriber or if you are the person who is looking for the next best deal on your cell phone service plan, a locked phone can make this very hard and expensive.
The only way around these issues listed above is to unlock your mobile phone. This is totally legal and is a less expensive way to get the most use out of your cell phone. Your network provider locks their mobile phone to prevent you from changing your cell phone service to a different network provider, thus keeping your business until you buy a new phone from a different network. What does it mean to unlock your phone?
When a mobile phone provider ‘lock’ their handsets, it means that their phones can only work with SIM cards issued by their company. Unlocking removes the restrictions put on your phone by the network so it can work with any SIM on any compatible GSM network globally. What are the gains of unlocking your phone?
Unlocking your cell phone will allow you to:
Assuming that you own a mobile phone that you like and are familiar with, and want to move from one GSM wireless provider to another one, you do not have to buy a new phone.
For frequent traveler or those who want to take their cell phone on vacations, holidays and/or business trips an unlocked phone can bring down or get rid roaming fees and give you the freedom to talk as you please (You just have to buy a pre paid SIM card from your travel destination and replace it in your unlocked phone.
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