Originally Posted by
FlyingDoctorwu
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ATT will unlock your phone if you buy it outright. It is possible. But, it's a little cumbersome because they will not sell it to you outright. They will sell it to you on an installment plan (aka NEXT) and then you have to pay it off in full as well as submit a request for unlocking. Technically your phone has to be outside the remorse period of 2 weeks; but they forgot to tell me that when I paid off my phone and they went ahead and unlocked it.
I'm utterly perplexed as to why someone would go to this hassle. Why would someone buy anything from AT&T rather than just buying from Apple directly?
So, rather than going through the somewhat cumbersome process you have outlined, I instead:
1) Ordered T-mobile unlocked phone from Apple directly (full price)
2) Opened said phone, inserted AT&T SIM
3) Done
Regards