A Guide To Unlock Your Phone
Unlocking your phone means you can use any network's Sim card, giving you the freedom to switch providers, lower costs and pass your phone on to others. Your network won't charge you to unlock your phone if you're out of contract, though if you're still in contract or on pay-as-you-go, they may. This guide has step-by-step instructions to unlock your phone from its digital shackle. Unlocking your phone will soon become a thing of the past as the regulator has announced it'll ban providers from locking devices to its network from the end of 2021. But until then, if you have a locked handset and you're out of contract, you needn't worry as unlocking is usually free and easy, as we explain below. Why unlock your phone? When you get a new phone through a mobile network, the chances are it'll be locked to that network - if you try to put another network's Sim card in, it simply won't work. Unlocking it means you can use the phone with any compatible