Thread: Can I Activate DATA Plan and switch to N900?
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texaslabrat is offline texaslabrat
2009-09-23 , 20:12
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Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
I know, so he can put the SIM card out of the SIMlocked phone and toss it in an unlocked phone and use that. But then he cannot use the SIMlocked phone anymore... and the provider can find out what he did quite easily. For example, I'm only allowed to switch my SIM card to another phone 2x a month.
But that's not what SIMlock is about..that's just IMEI checking by the service provider. Completely different issues and has nothing to do with "locking" a SIM to a phone from a technological aspect..it is a policy/billing issue.

For instance, I can switch my SIM from my SIMlocked, subsized phone to my unlocked N95 and back again every day if I wish. My provider doesn't care. That doesn't change the fact that my subsidized phone is SIMlocked and won't work with *another* provider's SIM.