AT&T Will Unlock Off-Contract iPhones Starting April 8

Starting Sunday, April 8th, 2012 AT&T will unlock any customer's off-contract iPhone. As long as your contract is over, and your account is in good standing (no late payments), they will set your iPhone free. After it's unlocked, your iPhone will play nice with any SIM or microSIM card from any GSM carrier.

AT&T has also decided to unlock your iPhone if you pay up the early termination fee, or if you had bought your iPhone at full, unsubsidized, price they will unlock it. Although, buying an iPhone at full price costs the same as buying a factory unlocked iPhone from the Apple Store.

Though your newly unlocked iPhone will work with any GSM carrier that you can get a SIM card from, the only other big GSM carrier in the US is T-Mobile USA, and your iPhone will be limited to EDGE speeds on their network.

All of this news come after reports that anybody could have gotten their AT&T iPhone unlocked just by emailing Apple CEO Tim Cook. Also, AT&T's policy has been that they would unlock a customer's device if their account was in good standing, but an exception was made with the iPhone.

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