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To: pyslent who wrote (143230)	7/3/2006 6:27:33 PM
From: kech	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Ok- so the subsidy just requires a 2 year contract and can then be unlocked. Then a customer can't get the subsidized handset and use it on a different network, or actually they can, but they just have to keep paying their orginal contract. But many of the arguments for sim card use in the previous discussion were for people who didn't want to have a contract-right?

To: pyslent who wrote (143230)	7/4/2006 7:00:53 AM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 152472

Sim Lock: Cingular << The practice of subsidies in the US is not at all compromised by a SIM-- Cingular offers similar subsidies to new customers, and is legally required to remove the subsidy lock if requested. >> I could be wrong (and if I am perhaps you can enlighten <g>) but I do not think they are legally required to remove the lock on any handset, subsidized or unsubsidised. As a matter of a relatively recent Cingular policy decision, and one that is not necessarrily widely publicized, it is my understanding that if requested they will now unlock any handset purchased from them after the user has fulfilled (at least) 3 months of his contract obligation, and of course other terms of the contract remain in force. Best, - Eric -