If you buy the phone from Apple, it will be  unlocked, and you can take
it to any carrier. You can also get unlocked cell phones from other
retailers as well.

On 24/02/13 19:19, Albert Ruel on Gmail wrote:
> Well Mike, if I'm buying it I should have the right to use/connect it to any
> service I choose, however if the seller insists on having me only connect to
> their service then they should retain ownership of the device.  If it's mine
> then give it to me and leave me alone, unless of course I opt to buy more
> services from you.  
> 
> I agree with you in terms of having less Government interference in my life,
> so why are they not allowing a free market in the cell phone system?  Isn't
> it they who have provided the ability of cell phone companies to lock the
> phones to their service?  I should be able to buy my phone from Apple and
> connect it anywhere that will provide me the service I want/need.  
> 
> Thx, Albert
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Pietruk [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 2:14 PM
> To: Albert Ruel
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Unlocking cell phones and More
> 
> Albert 
> 
> Why should you be able to plug in your cellphone as you do your refr ig,
> your tv, or your shaver.
> You didn't create that cellphone, and as its buyer, you get whatever rights
> the seller chooses to give you.
> While I would personally prefer more utility from that cellphone than less,
> I don't like government action of any sort interfering in this process
> particularly when it comes from an executive department administrative
> agency.
> Those agencies have become the tool of the executive branch in sidestepping
> the check and balances created by the writers of the Constitution.
> Just because a given decision may be one that personally works in my benefit
> doesn't make it right.
> 
> 
> 
> Patience is doing what you should do while waiting on God to do only what he
> can do.
> Robert Jeffress, speaker, Pathway to Victory www.ptv.org
> 
> 
> 
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