Originally Posted by cpx
I've observed the same... it was much easy to get a phone unlocked
through T-mobile. cingular was just bad. even for the phone/service
that was over a year old.
Sometimes its better to buy an unlocked phone from an online
vendor or Ebay.
This site
http://www.thetravelinsider.info/roa...aunlocking.htm (sorry I don't know how to just write "here" and have it make the link) looked reasonable for $25. The downside is that you have to send your phone, but it seemed that if you had a spare (I have some old ones) you can just take the SIM card out and put in the spare while it is gone.