Here are the most popular manufacturers and how to enter the carrier unlock code on their devices. here is just one of many possible international esim carriers to give you and idea of what is possible: airalo.The way you enter the unlock code varies between phone manufacturers. you can activate the second esim with a carrier i n another country/region. if it says it is not eligible for unlocking then call and see what they will do for you.

enter the imei and the old number at the bottom of the page in the above link and see what they say. Having said that, they don't seem to put up much of a fight about unlocking old phones. also, if you had a plan with say a year of days left and moved that plan and number to the new phone those days did not apply towards unlocking the new phone as they were paid on the prior phone. but if a phone was not activated, if you moved an old, already active, sim from one phone to a new phone then the new phone was never considered activated and paid days never accrued on that phone. they used to literally count the 'paid days' for plans purchased when on an activated phone. In a nut shell, phone activated prior to 11/2021 became available for unlocking after 12 months of paid service.

The unlocking is fully automatic with iPhones, but my understanding is you must manually enter the unlock code into Android phones.

I don’t know of any way to check the unlock status on Android phones, but on iPhones you can simply look under Settings-General-About-CarrierLock and it will either say Carrier Locked (if locked), No Sim Restrictions (if unlocked), or 'invalid sim' if carrier locked and another carriers sim is inserted). Here are the details and a site to use to unlock android phones (iPhone usually unlock automatically, but if locked and qualify for unlocking you can request unlocking of iPhones as well using the same site).Īll devices initially activated prior to Novemwill be automatically unlocked after 12 months of paid service (previously they were merely eligible for unlocking after 12 months of paid service but required you to call in and request unlocking).įor devices initially activated on or after November 23, 2021, iPhone devices will automatically be unlocked after 60 days of paid service and Android phones will be eligible for unlocking after at least 60 days where a unlock code will be provided upon request. Actually it used to be 12 months of active service but is now 60 days from initial activation without need to maintain active service (can activate a single 30 day plan, let it expire, and wait out the second 30 days to reach the 60th day to qualify for unlocking).

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