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It means your phone cannot be used for other service networks. If you are on Vodaphone for example you cannot insert a T-Mobile sim and use to call/accept calls as it would not be recognised. You can get people to un-lock your phone at a cost, so you can use it on other networks. The Carphone warehouse tends not to lock phones to service providers. Hope this info helped.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 7y agoMobile phones used to be 'tied' or locked so they could only use ONE preset network. For example, a phone sold by T-Mobile would only work with a T-Mobile SIM card. This meant that the user was restricted to paying the charges for that specific network - despite the availability of other (possibly cheaper) - networks. Since the deregulation of the whole mobile phone industry, handsets are now sold 'unlocked' and will accept any suitably-sized SIM card for any network.
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How do you unlock your phone lock?
you have to take it to your network shop
How can you remove the adult content lock on your vodavone network with out the need of bankcards?
remove my adult content from my phone
How do you unlock blackberry?
If you want to unlock your blackberry mobile phone from the network lock,I would suggest you to get network unlock code from Unbblock.com at reasonable price.
How do you unlock your phone if your put a security lock on it?
IF by 'blocked' - you mean it's been blocked by the network - you need to contact THEM and get them to unblock it. If you mean it's 'locked' by a passcode - you need to enter the passcode to unlock it.
Your orange SIM card is locked how do you unlock it?
The phone is locked to a particular network and we remove the network lock to use any sim with that phone.So if you want to remove the lock of orange network from your phone you need to get the unlock code from Unlocking4u.com wherein you need to specify the mobile make,model,country and network to which it is locked.they also provide free instructions along with the unlock code.
How do you unlock your blackberry phone?
If you want to unlock your blackberry mobile phone from the network lock,I would suggest you to get an unlock code from Unbblock.com at reasonable price.
How do you unlock a Nokia 6301?
If you want to unlock your Nokia 6301 mobile phone from the network lock,you can get network unlock code from Mobileunlocksolutions.com at reasonable price.Here they ask you to specify the country name,current network provider and IMEI number of your mobile phone.
Do you can unlock Nokia n75?
If you want to unlock your Nokia N75 mobile phone from the network lock,you can get network unlock code from Unlocking4u.com at reasonable price.Here they ask you to specify the country name,current network provider and IMEI number of your mobile phone.
Can you Unlock Nokia 2626?
If you want to unlock your Nokia 2626 mobile phone from the network lock,you can get network unlock code from Mobileunlocksolutions.com at reasonable price.Here they ask you to specify the country name,current network provider and IMEI number of your mobile phone.
How do you unlock your Nokia 6301?
If you want to unlock your Nokia 6301 mobile phone from the network lock,you can get network unlock code from Unlocking4u.com at reasonable price.Here they ask you to specify the country name,current network provider and IMEI number of your mobile phone.
How do you unlock Nokia 6280?
If you want to unlock your Nokia 6280 mobile phone from the network lock,you can get network unlock code from Unlocking4u.com at reasonable price.Here they ask you to specify the country name,current network provider and IMEI number of your mobile phone.
Why is a network lock needed for a phone?
Very good question ! There is absolutely no reason for a brand-new phone to be locked to a specific network. Phone manufacturers do it to restrict users to set (and often more expensive) tariffs - so they get the maximum money from the user !
