When you put your sim card from your nextel sprint into an old tmobile phone it asks you for a subsidy Almost like a password. I do not know what a subsidy is.?

Answer 1

Actually it is a password that tmobile has to give you bcuz it is one of there phones just call tmobile and ask to talk to tech and explain that you got a tmobile phone and ur trying to make it a different company and you need the subsidy password and they are required to give it to you!! Not true, cell phone companys are not required to give it to you. Be careful, this will ruin the sim and you will lose all your contacts that are saved to it. Actually, cell phone companys do not have the subsidy lock, I work for one of them and we get this call all the time. The subsidy lock is from the manufactorer of the phone not the cell phone company.