Unlocking Your Blackberry Phone | The Communication Blog

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Unlocking Your Blackberry Phone

By Mukul Verma

Blackberry is the favorite among teenagers, yuppies, businessmen and practically almost every group. It has been selling like hotcakes that network providers have taken advantage of the trend. Network providers have configured a "subsidy lock" into each blackberry that they sell making the owners tied to their networks for as long as they own the phone. That is, unless the owners know how to do blackberry unlock.

There is a way to get your code to unlock; some networks would allow you to do obtain it for free. That is, if you meet their requirements. One of these requirements is that you should have availed of their services for a minimum number of years. If you have been a customer for only a few months and you find that you are not satisfied with their services then you can look up how to unlock a phone in the internet and employ the services of some unlocking experts. It can be a little different for blackberry, because the codes assigned to all blackberry phones are assigned through calculator by a network provider.

It is easier with other mobile phones because the codes are not assigned randomly. It is therefore cheaper to have your Motorola unlock code cracked by those who provide unlocking services than to have a blackberry's code cracked. These unlocking services may find other means to unlock a blackberry but they may charge a higher fee because they have to devote more time and effort to the job. They may have to invest in a software or hardware to succeed in unlocking your blackberry. The point here is that it is cheaper to avail unlocking services than buying another blackberry just so you can switch to a different network provider.

Very few people know that GSM phones are designed to be compatible with any Subscriber Information Module or SIM. This is a chip that has a serial number that is registered to your network provider's database and this is how your mobile phone is identified by your network provider. However, it is a trend these days that network providers lock your phone so that it would be compatible only to their network and you would have to unlock mobile phone in order to use a SIM provided by another network provider.

Unlocking cell phone is not really easy so there are experts who provide their services for a minimal fee to unlock cell phone. Since mobile phones are expensive and are often unaffordable; most network providers like AT&T, Cingular, Verizon and T-Mobile offer discounts. They compensate for the lost profit by locking the phone that you bought from them so that you would need an unlock code to be able to use another SIM with a different network provider for it. This code will, of course, not be given to you. You will need to seek the services of people who know how to do mobile phone unlocking.

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