Quick question: AT&T Wireless SIM unlocking.

[randomness]

I have heard that AT&T Wireless is particularly uncooperative about unlocking handsets. For that reason, I'm considering T-Mobile instead. (I want a quad-band GSM phone, and I think those two carriers are my options around here, here being Connecticut.)

T-Mobile's policy is that they'll give you an unlock code after 90 days, which for my purposes is sufficient.

Am I wrong about this? AT&T Wireless's site is not being particularly helpful here.

Thanks, all.

Comments

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

between zubatac we've gotten unlock codes out of T-Mobile for at least 3 or 4 different handsets, not all of them 90 days after we buy the phone. i suspect that the fact that they can trivially look up that we've kept using T-mobile helps, but if you tell them something reasonable about upcoming travel they are equally reasonable about giving you the code.

[chain saw with a magician (from livejournal.com)]

I've heard the policy phrased slightly differently - that they will unlock one phone per "line" per customer per 90 days. The cunlocked my last one a week after I got it, and I didn't even buy it from them.

From reading on the web, it sounds like AT&T's policy is about the same, excepting iphones: http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1404306