Originally Posted by dan1431

All you have to do is purchase an unlocking code and you are good to go. No more subsidy code and you are free to place whoever’s sim you want.

I have been unlocking phones since I switched to AT&T a while back. Personally, I understand why AT&T and others applies a subsidy code to their phones; they do not want to loose revenue.

Frankly AT&T and the lot charge way too much to use their services abroad for it to make financial sense for me use my AT&T sim outside the states. Therefore, I have to unlock the phone which defeats the purpose of the subsidy code to begin with. Honestly, I would rather pay a few more bucks a month and receive an unlocked phone, as I believe that cell phone service is fairly inexpensive to begin with.

Dan