Only because they are trying to con you in to buying a device from them On 8/5/18, Zhi Huang <zhi.hu...@comcast.net> wrote: > I should mention that I purchased an unlocked iPhone 7 from Apple that I > have been using with ATT. Yesterday, I went to Comcast who has good deals > for xfinity customers price wise using Verizon networks. However, after > checking my serial and Imei numbers, I did not make the switch because they > insisted and made all kinds of excuses about how my iPhone 7 cannot be > transferred and how I need to get a new phone with them. I called Verizon > directly to see what they say and same old excuses. Both Comcast and > Verizon are saying this is a specific problem with ATT iPhone 7's. That is > after I insisted that the phone is unlocked but they are saying it’s the > specific configuration after I chose to use the phone with ATT. I checked > with Apple and they are saying that my phone is unlocked and that I could > try to get them to put in a Verizon sim card, but Comcast and Verizon won't > budge. I googled this and got the following poast that pretty much shares > my experiences: > https://forums.xfinity.com/t5/Xfinity-Mobile/Adding-unlocked-iPhone-to-xfinity-account-Is-a-major/td-p/3037640 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of > Arlene > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2018 5:40 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: going through the process of unlocking a phone > > Anna, we're getting ready to unlock our t-mobile phones. A person at the > t-mobile store told us if we have another iphone on a different network > other than t-mobile, that if you were to take the sim card out of that other > network's phone, and put it into the phone you want to unlock, it would pop > up some messages with the promps to unlock it. Here's some more information, > with t-mobile, if you buy a phone from them, pay cash for the phone in full, > it will still come with the phone locked so you would still have to unlock > the phone, but if you could buy this same iphone from apple it would come > unlocked. We don't know this from any actual experience but verizon phones, > claim all their phones are unlocked, and a person from oneof the corprid > verizon store said the phones being unlocked has been going on for about 4 > years. One thing about it, if you put another sim card from another carrier > that phone and it works, than you would know the phone is unlocked. We don't > know about at&t about this, but we suggest you could ask at&t, and we hope > you get an honest answer. I would say to ask more than one individual at > at&t, I would ask both, someone in one of your city's corprid at&t stores, > and also you could ask the customer service when you call on the phone. If > your phone is completely paid for we suggest you get it unlocked soon. > Before ending this message, we just called verizon and at&t. According to > the customer service person from the at&t customer service number, she said > the phones were locked, but to find out for sure there's 2 things you could > do besides calling the store. With your imei number you could call either > the at&t customer service or call the store and they should be able to tell > you. The second way to check with your imei number is to search for an imei > checker. One of the results for an imei checker I found was to check and see > if one's imei number was on t-mobile. There's probably imei checkers for > all the carriers. Let us know what you find out, Anna, and possibly someone > knows a bit more. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anna Dresner" <wadres...@att.net> > To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2018 9:59 AM > Subject: Re: going through the process of unlocking a phone > > > Hi all, > > Is there a way to find out whether a phone is unlocked or not? I bought mine > from Apple last fall, specifying AT&T as the carrier. It's an iPhone X. I > seem to remember hearing that these phones came unlocked, but I'm not sure. > > I'd rather not have to do the restore from backup if it's not necessary. > > Best, > Anna > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Aug 5, 2018, at 12:54 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: >> >> T > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. 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