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Re: Optus X Lite phone unlocking

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On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 07:00:25 +1100, Computer Nerd Kev  
<not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:

> In aus.electronics Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:
>> On 11-Nov-23 7:30 am, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>>> 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
>
> It seems so, although it clearly took them longer to do that
> than right after they started accepting resellers (in 2013
> according to Wikipedia). I'd assumed that ensuring they made some
> money off the phone customer, either directly or via a reseller
> buying network capacity off them, was enough.

Fraid not. A mate of mine is such a tech cripple that he still uses
some real antiques like that which were locked to Telstra and
had to be unlocked even to use on Belong, a telstra subsidiary.

They are so old that unlocking is free tho.

> Apparantly they're  too greedy for that.

Nothing to do with greedy. It was always about flogging
phones for well under what it cost the telco to buy them
for, to gouge povs like you on usage charges.

Your problem for being a pov.

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Optus X Lite phone unlocking Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2023-10-27 14:33 +1000
  Re: Optus X Lite phone unlocking Daniel65 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2023-10-27 18:57 +1100
    Re: Optus X Lite phone unlocking Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2023-10-27 19:15 +1100
      Re: Optus X Lite phone unlocking Daniel65 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2023-10-27 21:45 +1100
        Re: Optus X Lite phone unlocking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2023-10-28 05:14 +1100
    Re: Optus X Lite phone unlocking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2023-10-28 05:11 +1100
  Re: Optus X Lite phone unlocking Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2023-11-08 16:12 +1000
    Re: Optus X Lite phone unlocking not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2023-11-11 06:30 +1000
      Re: Optus X Lite phone unlocking Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2023-11-11 09:32 +1100
        Re: Optus X Lite phone unlocking not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2023-11-12 06:00 +1000
          Re: Optus X Lite phone unlocking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2023-11-12 07:29 +1100

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