In the United States mobile phones may be unlocked but phone operators are not legally obliged to assist you.
In France however, according to a by-law passed on the 17th of November 1998 (text, scan), phone operators are obliged to unlock your phone, for a cost during the first 6 months of a contract but for free after the initial 6 months.
All three operators have lost civil lawsuits citing this by-law: Bouygues Telecom in April 2000, France Telecom Orange in January 2002 and SFR in October 2002.
Vivre le iPhone! Vivre la France!
10 comments:
Hello,
I'm french and I already have done this with my phone : you have to send to the operator a copy of your ID Card (or passport)and to call them : they explain you how to unlock the phone. I hope the iphone will be soon in France...
hey , ribb, then u aldy knw how to unlock it ? my mail- angle_fuller@hotmail.com
viva la france
ripp what do i do to get the iphone unlocked?
please email me at islandfun41@gmail.com
thanks babe
Bonjour ribb
Pouvez vous m'envoyer un @ d'instruction au sbasar@gmail.com pour la desactivation du systeme de blockage des sim-cards?
Vous remerciant par avance
Sezai
En Belgique, c'est encore plus simple: La loi interdit la vente de téléphones mobiles verrouillés.
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It is even easier in Belgium, it is forbidden, by law, to sell locked phones (or to lock phones for that matter). Will Apple ever sell iPhone in Belgium?
I wonder what is going to happen in Finland - the Nokialand. We do not have locked phones here at all, iPhone would be the very first one.
-Hannu-
just to let you know turbosim x sim 3 works perfectly unlocking 1.1.2 otb iphones us and european versions if you have a european version u need the sim that comes with the iphone.
then u need to put the x sim 3 turbosim and the sim that came with iphone in to anothe iphone a new menu will come up called stk . select it then choose english then select other iphones then select copy sim card data.
then remove sim and put the sim you want to use in iphone with turbosim x sim 3 into iphone and it will work
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i bought an unlocked iphone and i plugged it into itunes and i accidentally clicked "restore and update" and it completely deleted everything and now the phone doesnt even have a menu....the only option i have is to make emergency phone calls....is there any way to unlock it?
I have an iPhone 3G from Orange. I have just completed unlocking it. After 6 months (as noted) I called Orange and requested that they "debloquez mon SIM" or "deverrouillez mon iPhone". They do not make it easy. When I first called they said it would take 3 days. After 3 days, they said it would be a week. Finally received email after 8 days, 4 calls, and 2 emails to their support. To unlock, you just do a "Restore" in iTunes. At end of this process, iTunes indicates that there is an update from the service provider & asks if you want to apply it. This is the unlock. Tested it with my US T-Mobile SIM & it works great.
That law that you said about is in all Europe but is not aplyied by all the operator.SO the solution is unlocking with software...
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