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AT&T tries to defend why it shouldn't let you unlock your phone sooner

2 years ago by Nemeski to c/technology

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AT&T executives met with FCC officials to explain why it thinks it would be a mistake to allow customers to unlock their phones sooner.
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SuspiciousPumpkin421 12 points 2 years ago

This literally happened to me recently. Was going to Germany for 2 weeks and wanted to use a cheap eSIM for data only. I asked them if they could unlock my phone so I could do this, and they said no since it’s not paid off. I still have a new months left to pay it off, and didn’t wanna drop $250 to do that so I just had to pay the international data plan. $12(maybe $10? Can’t remember) a day, 10 day maximum charge per cycle so I’ll pay $120 for mine and $60 for my partners. Instead of the $11 30gb data plan I wanted. I’m never buying a phone from a carrier again, I will always just buy it outright from now on. It was a stupid situation.

Also the data roaming sucked, each time we moved from one provider network to another we had to restart our phones as the data didn’t wanna work…

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bane_killgrind 7 points 2 years ago

A burner phone with a hotspot would have been cheaper.

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ECB 4 points 2 years ago

Personally I always always buy phones with two sim slots. It's super practical if you travel semi-often.

Idk about apple, but basically all of the mid-range androids have this feature. I guess this is about the US though, so it's probably Apple.

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MehBlah 4 points 2 years ago

This is the way. Go buy a cheap phone when you get there and screw AT&FEE

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