Are you curious about unlocked phone?And why you would want to unlock you cell phone.
1. Changing carriers on the go. Say you travel abroad often - you could want to sign up with two carriers in order to reduce costs, saving yourself any roaming charges, without having to carry two phones. You could simply switch SIM cards when you’re in another country.
2. Selling your cell phone. Say you plan on changing your phone and want to sell your old one. You are limiting your choice of buyers immensely if they can’t choose the carrier they want. Cell phones, when bought elsewhere than from a cell phone carrier, are often sold unlocked.
3. The practice of locking cell phones is bad for the consumer. By doing so, cell phone carriers force your to remain loyal to them and can charge you more for less. They are effectively trying to avoid competition with the other carriers.
A good compromise cell phone carriers could put into place would be to keep the cell phone locked for the duration of the contract and offer to unlock it when the contract ends. This would however prevent the user who has to travel abroad from switching SIM cards for the duration of the contract, so this is not an ideal solution. Unlocking your cell phone allows you to choose what’s best for you.
4. Exclusive handsets. Often, some handsets are exclusive to a specific carrier, like the iPhone. At the moment, you can only use an iPhone with AT&T. By unlocking a cell phone, you can use it with any carrier.
