Originally Posted by
FlyingDoctorwu
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.
Good to know that it worked. When I was researching that, I read that when people were trying to do the same thing with the 5s last year, it didn't work. AT&T was having technical difficulty trying to unlock the phone even after the NEXT plan was paid off. The online unlock request kept coming back saying they were not qualified for the unlock. And when calling, the customer support on phone couldn't do it either. Glad to know it works better now.