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Old Jul 2, 2007 | 2:10 pm
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Originally Posted by GadgetFreak
Im still waiting for an answer to the question I posed a few pages back. In the EU I believe providers have to provide unlock codes on request at a "reasonable" cost. Is that not correct? If it is correct how is Apple going to circumvent the laws in those countries?
It'll be like the Blackberry... You can probably unlock it, but the service itself still needs to go through Apple, and it isn't hard for them to "lock" the phone to only let service onto their systems from one operator.
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