How To Unlock At&t Prepaid Phone

How do I unlock my phone if I have AT&T, T-Mobile. I purchased an UNLOCKED GSM phone in the US that I use with an AT&T Prepaid Plan for my personal phone. Oct 02, 2017 See if your carrier offers unlocking. Only your carrier can unlock your iPhone. Contact your carrier and request an unlock. Your account might need to meet requirements for unlocking. After you submit the request, it might take a few days to complete. To get your request's status, contact your carrier.

Your two-year contract is finally up, and you want to save some money by bringing your phone to a carrier with lower rates. Sadly, odds are that your phone is locked to your carrier, which prevents you from jumping ship and. Thankfully, made the process of unlocking your phone easier than ever. More importantly, it superseded an earlier decision made by the Library of Congress that interpreted cell phone unlocking as a violation of copyright (a ruling that actually saw phone unlocking ). Cell phone unlocking, in other words, is legally permissible. Just because unlocking your phone is legal doesn’t necessarily mean it’s easy to do, though.

To that end, let’s dive into how to unlock a phone and break free of your two-year cycle with your carrier. What you’ll need Before you set your mind on unlocking your phone, you’ll need to keep in mind that doing so isn’t a fast process by any stretch of the imagination. Unlocking your phone can take several phone calls and hours of work. In addition, unlocking your phone before you leave your current carrier would be wise, as the incentive to help you through the process won’t be as great. With that in mind, there are a few nuggets of information you’ll need: • The account holder’s name and account number • IMEI of your device • Your phone number • The account holder’s social security number or password • A finished contract and/or device payment plan • Overseas deployment papers, if the nature of your inquiry involves you being in the military and wanting to unlock your phone before your contract is up Now that you have that information by your side, let’s see how each carrier handles unlocking your phone. Unlocking a Verizon phone Even though Verizon uses CDMA instead of GSM, most of Big Red’s devices come with an unlocked SIM card slot., its 4G LTE devices aren’t locked, and, if you want to bring one of them to another carrier, there is no code you need to rejig the phone’s radios for other networks.