"Mark Ingle" <markinglenospam@nospamfastmail.fm> wrote in
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> There are two Staples shops in my town (Leicester) and
> both had the Netgear Sipgate one (I actually bought one
> but didn't realise it was locked so had to return it).
>
> One of them also had a Vonage Linksys on clearance for 25
> pounds. I did consider buying this and getting it
> unlocked, but decided against it in case the unlocking
> attempt was unsuccessful.
>
> If you have other Staples shops in your area, it may be
> worth phoning them up, especially if apparently you can
> now unlock them.

You can certainly unlock them via the Sipgate website, the only downside
is that you will lose any entitlement to Sipgate tech support, but of
course that isn't a problem if you use another provider, that being the
whole point of unlocking..!

Ivor