Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
> > Also, what's with all these "locked" phones? What's all that about?

> It keeps you from using the phone with a different carrier. Since the 
> carrier subsidized the phone, they "lock" it to keep you from buying a 
> cheap phone from them and then using it without paying back the subsidy.

  IIRC, that's illegal in Finland. (Which is the reason why the Finnish
release of the iPhone has been so postponed.)

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