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How are phones unlocked these days?

 

I purchased a Sprint phone from wally world off contract outright thinking I could simply use my T-Mobile sim card in it given the merger... Apparently not.

 

I called Sprint and they told me it needs to be active for 50 days on service to be unlocked:thumbdown

 

Its a heck of a deal at 50 bucks. Are there any third party unlocking services that work?

 

Worst case I can return to store.

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Basically any carrier's policy is it has to be on the network for X amount of days, then it auto unlocks. I think Verizon's is 90 days for example. Otherwise, there are services you can pay to unlock it but they are pretty sketchy. I just gifted my old Verizon iPhone 7 Plus to my mom who just switch to T-Failboat and it worked just fine, just missing a couple of their LTE frequencies.
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