Over the weekend the government announced that it had finally brokered an agreement with UK mobile network providers to end unlocking fees for mobile phones – delivering a great win for our campaign to Unlock Better Mobile Deals.
This means that you can use a SIM card for any mobile network on your handset once the initial contract period is up. uSwitch estimate that this will collectively save mobile users over £48m per year.
Unlocking mobiles
Now when your mobile contract finishes, instead of having a restricted handset knocking around in your kitchen drawer, you ‘ll be able to easily keep your existing handset and move to another cheaper network, or even pass your old mobile onto a friend or family member.
This is all without the hassle or the cost of having to go and get it unlocked.
And for those of you who’d like to get a bit of cash out of your old handsets, there’s also evidence to suggest that having your phone unlocked also helps to increase the resale value of your old phone.
This is not only a big win for all mobile phone users, but also for our campaign supporters, nearly 80,000 of whom joined our call to an end unfair unlocking fees over the past two years. Over that time we slowly saw the debate shift in our favour, as individual operators promised to change their ways, and the government started to recognise there was a problem thanks to the persistence of our supporters.
This is from Which? - The same Which? who give you £7.87 free on TCB for trialling their magazine (£1).
- luvsadealdealdeal
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craigstephens
12 Oct 1620#9
Expect tariffs to go up around £48m a year collectively.
nexus76
12 Oct 167#7
o2 do it free from day one
firstofficer to Teqnophile
12 Oct 163#18
Ask for a PAC code ;-)
Delbert Grady to Jules_HT
12 Oct 163#2
Click on the "get deal" link above and you'll find out!
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Jules_HT
12 Oct 16#1
Just out of interest who is "Our" (as in "our campaign" and "our supporters")?
Delbert Grady to Jules_HT
12 Oct 163#2
Click on the "get deal" link above and you'll find out!
luvsadealdealdeal
12 Oct 161#3
This is from Which? - The same Which? who give you £7.87 free on TCB for trialling their magazine (£1).
andiejn to luvsadealdealdeal
13 Oct 16#51
and are a pain in the **** to cancel.
getmeone
12 Oct 161#4
How does the phone get unlocked? I have been in contract with EE for a couple of years and only use an old Galaxy model which is locked to EE. Is it automatic?
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This means that you can use a SIM card for any mobile network on your handset once the initial contract period is up. uSwitch estimate that this will collectively save mobile users over £48m per year.
Unlocking mobiles
Now when your mobile contract finishes, instead of having a restricted handset knocking around in your kitchen drawer, you ‘ll be able to easily keep your existing handset and move to another cheaper network, or even pass your old mobile onto a friend or family member.
This is all without the hassle or the cost of having to go and get it unlocked.
And for those of you who’d like to get a bit of cash out of your old handsets, there’s also evidence to suggest that having your phone unlocked also helps to increase the resale value of your old phone.
This is not only a big win for all mobile phone users, but also for our campaign supporters, nearly 80,000 of whom joined our call to an end unfair unlocking fees over the past two years. Over that time we slowly saw the debate shift in our favour, as individual operators promised to change their ways, and the government started to recognise there was a problem thanks to the persistence of our supporters.
This is from Which? - The same Which? who give you £7.87 free on TCB for trialling their magazine (£1).
- luvsadealdealdeal
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