Unlocked phone?

If I buy cingulars prepaid "gophone" service, and I buy a phone
through them, will the sim card and/or phone be "locked" or "unlocked"?

In article <1173848784.676298.12600@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups. com>,
dterrors@hotmail.com wrote:

> If I buy cingulars prepaid "gophone" service, and I buy a phone
> through them, will the sim card and/or phone be "locked" or "unlocked"?

Don't know if this helps, but I have a friend with Cingualr who crunched
his Treo, didn't want to commit to a service plan, so bought a Gophone
and used his Treo sim. Don't know how the phone might work with other
carriers.

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In article <1173848784.676298.12600@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups. com>,
<dterrors@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>If I buy cingulars prepaid "gophone" service, and I buy a phone
>through them, will the sim card and/or phone be "locked" or "unlocked"?

All Cingular phones are sold subsidy locked to Cingular SIM cards.

I'm not sure what you mean by asking if the SIM card is "locked". Will it
work on an unlocked non-Cingular phone? Yes.

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:19:29 +0000 (UTC), retsuhcs@xinap.moc (Mike S.)
wrote in <et9vu1$jvf$1@reader2.panix.com>:

>In article <1173848784.676298.12600@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups. com>,
> <dterrors@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>If I buy cingulars prepaid "gophone" service, and I buy a phone
>>through them, will the sim card and/or phone be "locked" or "unlocked"?
>
>All Cingular phones are sold subsidy locked to Cingular SIM cards.

Most, but not all -- from time to time Cingular has sold some unlocked
phones.

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In article <7j3hv292gvu8mjiv1l1325upovgm083fun@4ax.com>,
John Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:19:29 +0000 (UTC), retsuhcs@xinap.moc (Mike S.)
>wrote in <et9vu1$jvf$1@reader2.panix.com>:
>
>>In article <1173848784.676298.12600@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups. com>,
>> <dterrors@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>If I buy cingulars prepaid "gophone" service, and I buy a phone
>>>through them, will the sim card and/or phone be "locked" or "unlocked"?
>>
>>All Cingular phones are sold subsidy locked to Cingular SIM cards.
>
>Most, but not all -- from time to time Cingular has sold some unlocked
>phones.

I'm talking about the present, since the wording of the OP's question
implies he has not yet made the purchase.