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Facts About Unlocking GSM Mobile Phones
If you have just learned that your GSM mobile phone is locked, you might be wondering what on earth that means and possibly asking yourself how you can “unlock” it. The short answer is that some wireless providers do lock their phones, meaning that they can only work with memory cards, or SIMs, issued by them. You might like the phone itself, but not the provider and in this case you will need to know how to unlock your phone before you can switch to another service. Whilst a traditional cell phone service works by sending calls to a phone, which retains its own unique serial number, a GSM mobile phone is very different. This phone uses a removable memory card or account card which is also known as a SIM card where SIM stands for “subscriber information module”. It...


