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Old July 19, 2011, 09:13 PM
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Nope, iphones are locked to their carrier unless you unlock it via jailbreaking
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Old July 19, 2011, 09:40 PM
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Like can I take my telus phone over to the rogers store and have them activate it for rogers?
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Old July 19, 2011, 09:45 PM
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No it doesn't work like that. You'll have to do what supaflyx3 suggested: jailbreak it.
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No it doesn't work like that. You'll have to do what supaflyx3 suggested: jailbreak it.

The short answer is; No, if a phone is locked to a carrier, you have to ask said carrier for permission to unlock it, and they can deny it.

The long answer is; No, but there are ways around it. You can jailbreak the phone, then install an unlock (ultrasn0w) to allow you to use different SIM's from other providers. This will only work on an iphone 4 with the original baseband firmware, which requires either the 4.0/4.01 firmware, or custom brewed updates that retain the original baseband.
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