How do I unlock my220x mobile phone for free - Lands Phones

Someone told you that because that is a great and even plausable answer.

Here is the deal. There are at least two major kinds of systems in the world that I am familiar with. Their names are not important. What is important is to understand there are at least two. Lets say two for simplicity. I don't know where you are located and that is not important to the discussion. You have probably heard of T-Mobil, AT&T and Verizon. We will use these companies for our chat. The system that T-Mobil and AT&T use is different from the system Verizon uses. In fact, I believe the entire world uses the system T-Mobil and AT&T uses while Verizon (and probably a couple other companies) use the other system.

All the companies want to keep their customers. They want to attract New customers. They do this by offering specialty phones (the Verizon Droid is an example) Phones built for the Verizon Network will not work on other networks because the system is different. Think AM radio and FM radio, though cell phones do not run on AM and FM.

On the ohter side of the street T-Mobil and AT&T share a method but they want to keep their own customers so they put special locking codes into the phone so that a phone built for AT&T will not work on the T-Mobil system unless you can get a unlock key. Guess who controls the keys? There are some codes floating around that WWW ...

Here is the deal, at the end of the day, when mom wants to make a call, you have to have a service provider. For mom's telephone to work, some company has to send her a signal, a dial tone. For the best results, you shuld have a telephone that is manufactured to run on that company's system ... hardware and software we are talking about. All telephones, even those with no provider, will dial 911 in the USA and get a result. I don't think this is what you had in mind when this all started.

Here is what you should do. Contact your carrier. Tell them what you have and ask them if it can be made to work with their system. If you get grief there, speak with a supervisor. They will of course want to sell you a telephone. Resist at first but be prepared to purchase a new phone.

I hope I have answered your question.

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