Will tmobile unlock phones bought elsewhere?

Has anyone bought a phone elsewhere (e.g. ebay, or from overseas), use it
with t-mobile prepaid, and then ask t-mobile to unlock the phone?

At 15 Oct 2011 10:33:53 -0700 bob wrote:
> Has anyone bought a phone elsewhere (e.g. ebay, or from overseas), use
> it with t-mobile prepaid, and then ask t-mobile to unlock the phone?


As a matter of policy, T-Mo will only unlock a T-Mo phone. If you but a
T-Mo phone on ebay they'll unlock it if the unlock criteria (length of
service, time since last refill, etc.) are met.

Apparently, T-Mo feels they have no right or obligation to unlock a
device originally locked by another carrier.

Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote:

> At 15 Oct 2011 10:33:53 -0700 bob wrote:
>> Has anyone bought a phone elsewhere (e.g. ebay, or from
>> overseas), use it with t-mobile prepaid, and then ask t-mobile to
>> unlock the phone?
>
> As a matter of policy, T-Mo will only unlock a T-Mo phone. If you
> but a T-Mo phone on ebay they'll unlock it if the unlock criteria
> (length of service, time since last refill, etc.) are met.

Odd. I had VZW unlock an Ebay phone, they made no comment, just walked
me through the procedure.

I've unlocked every T-Mo phone I've had for free w/o ever contacting T-
Mo, don't know why you'd need to do so? I have unlocked Android and
BlackBerry devices, don't know about other T-Mo phones.

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Hi, you can buy the mobile wherever you want to...thats not the problem for unlocking..you can certainly unlock your mobile from t-mobile with the unlock codes..from Theunlockspot.com you can get the unlock code..its very simple and easy