Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Sylvia Else Newsgroups: aus.comms,aus.electronics Subject: Re: Optus X Lite phone unlocking Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 09:32:59 +1100 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <653b3db2@news.ausics.net> <654b26de@news.ausics.net> <654e92e0@news.ausics.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net VX1JGi7SBn64BkEfgM8J1AwLC6KsrzTDIPv97ZQ48b1/gvQc97 Cancel-Lock: sha1:igeCX+GzU0y8ElB6eC8E/7gbYI8= sha256:R7/BXiK4qyREIsNUTT6bqtpplTnqVfnGlUsR2/xDg7E= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.15.1 Content-Language: en-US, en-AU In-Reply-To: <654e92e0@news.ausics.net> Xref: csiph.com aus.comms:20646 aus.electronics:35654 On 11-Nov-23 7:30 am, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: > In aus.electronics Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >> In aus.electronics Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >>> I want to use it with the Telstra network. >> >> It turns out that good things come to those who wait. Coles now >> have the Telstra version discounted too, for $29. So I'll get one >> of them. >> >> https://www.coles.com.au/product/telstra-lite-3-1-each-5142421 > > Well that was a mistake. It turns out that even though old 3G > Telstra-locked phones, and my Telstra 4G USB modem, work fine with > my ALDI Mobile SIM because it uses the Telstra network, this damn > thing won't have a bar of it! So apparantly Telstra have been busy > moving the goalposts since they sold the earlier models, and this > thing's useless to me locked. > > I wonder if Optus do the same thing now? I used to use an Optus 3G > USB modem with an Amaysim SIM because again they used the same > physical network. > In earlier days, telco resellers weren't a thing, so the locking was probably just to a network. With advent of resellers it's not surprising that telcos and resellers would want to lock the phone that they'd subsidised to their specific brand, and no doubt phone manufacturers cooperated on that. Sylvia.