It’s no wonder that unlocking modems as well as phones has become a most sought after service. Unlocking your device opens the door to such a possibility. If the network to which the device is locked to can’t offer that at some point in time by virtue of being an evolving business, it makes little sense why one shouldn’t shift to better offerings. After all, as consumers our instincts drive us to where the best value for our money is guaranteed. With such temporal reasons, unlocking network locked devices proves to be inevitable at some point. The usual victim of this tends to be modems though feature phones and smartphones have also similarly faced such measures, albeit less in the recent past, perhaps due to the proliferation of multi-sim devices.Ĭarriers can justify this measure on grounds of selling such devices at a discount, on contract or simply, on the basis of competition. It’s quite a common practice for many carriers across the globe to lock devices they sell to just their networks.
