XS11E wrote:

> Irrelevant, the OP asked for a definition of the term "Unlocked", the
> term does not apply to a CDMA phone.

That's not quite true. Look at the ARN service. You can only use an
unactivated CDMA cellular phone that is also unregistered to a specific
carrier. You can't use an old Verizon or Sprint or Alltel phone that was
registered in the past with one of those carriers unless they agree to
unregister it, which is likely impossible. I could have used my 270C
that I bought from a Motorola reseller on ARN if I had wanted to, since
it wasn't registered with any carrier until I activated it on Verizon.
It even came with the generic, and full-featured Motorola firmware,
rather than the Verizon de-featured firmware.

Maybe "lock" is the wrong word because there's nothing physically in the
phone that makes it locked like a GSM phone, but the carrier keeps the
phone's ESN registered in its database, even when the phone is no longer
being used.