Unlocking Cell Phones Pt. 2

A good friend from the US who is currently in Oslo phoned last night with phone questions. She had a phone from the US from an AT&T plan (before they turned Cingular) that she wanted to use. Of course it was locked. What a scam- first, that they even lock them. There are codes available everywhere to unlock phones. It is merely a speed bump. Secondly, it took some digging to find a site with free phone codes. Many try to charge a few dollars or euros. I guess you just have to know where to look. Once you get there, the procedure is so bizarre that I wouldn't believe it could work, had I not done it before. You enter an arcane series of numbers and symbols, then the phone suddenly works with competitors' SIM cards and networks. Of course the phone companies would have you believe their phones were entirely incompatible. In Norway, phones are not locked, by the way.