debiansu
March 27th, 2011, 09:38 PM
Mobile phone "unlocking" is the biggest scam ever!
Everywhere you go, there are tacky little websites and physical shops or market stalls, offering this "unlocking service" which the mobile phone networks inflict upon us - their customers. I understand that these handsets are subsidised, but the fact is that if their deals WERE as good as they say they are, then we could be supplied SIM-free unlocked mobile handsets, and they could rest assured that their tariff is good, so we won't be tempted to move.
What annoys me incredibly, is that this unlocking information should be made available for most mobile handsets free. Instead, there is a massive business out there, people who leech incredible amounts of money from people, when they could be liberating them from the SIM locks, for the benefit of the public against these greedy corporations.
My point? freedom is freedom, and it should be so, that we are not forced into using one network provider, with the only alternative being to PAY for the information that these money mad hackers and GSM sites hide with incredible amounts of greed and envy - it is wrong! The public should not be SIM locked, but for the moment, we should be investing time and effort into making totally free solutions that liberate us, without this whole mobile handset unlocking services market being allowed to exist. There should be free software tools to do these jobs, and to unshackle us from the restrictions of hardware WE HAVE BOUGHT, AND OWN. It seems equivalent to dictating what OS someone should run on their PC - ridiculous and dictatorial.
If you want freedom, then this is also an aspect of freedom that needs addressing, badly.
Everywhere you go, there are tacky little websites and physical shops or market stalls, offering this "unlocking service" which the mobile phone networks inflict upon us - their customers. I understand that these handsets are subsidised, but the fact is that if their deals WERE as good as they say they are, then we could be supplied SIM-free unlocked mobile handsets, and they could rest assured that their tariff is good, so we won't be tempted to move.
What annoys me incredibly, is that this unlocking information should be made available for most mobile handsets free. Instead, there is a massive business out there, people who leech incredible amounts of money from people, when they could be liberating them from the SIM locks, for the benefit of the public against these greedy corporations.
My point? freedom is freedom, and it should be so, that we are not forced into using one network provider, with the only alternative being to PAY for the information that these money mad hackers and GSM sites hide with incredible amounts of greed and envy - it is wrong! The public should not be SIM locked, but for the moment, we should be investing time and effort into making totally free solutions that liberate us, without this whole mobile handset unlocking services market being allowed to exist. There should be free software tools to do these jobs, and to unshackle us from the restrictions of hardware WE HAVE BOUGHT, AND OWN. It seems equivalent to dictating what OS someone should run on their PC - ridiculous and dictatorial.
If you want freedom, then this is also an aspect of freedom that needs addressing, badly.