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AT&T tries to defend why it shouldn't let you unlock your phone sooner (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This literally happened to me recently. Was going to Germany for 2 weeks and wanted to use a cheap eSIM for data only. I asked them if they could unlock my phone so I could do this, and they said no since it’s not paid off. I still have a new months left to pay it off, and didn’t wanna drop $250 to do that so I just had to pay the international data plan. $12(maybe $10? Can’t remember) a day, 10 day maximum charge per cycle so I’ll pay $120 for mine and $60 for my partners. Instead of the $11 30gb data plan I wanted. I’m never buying a phone from a carrier again, I will always just buy it outright from now on. It was a stupid situation.

Also the data roaming sucked, each time we moved from one provider network to another we had to restart our phones as the data didn’t wanna work…

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A burner phone with a hotspot would have been cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This is the way. Go buy a cheap phone when you get there and screw AT&FEE

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Personally I always always buy phones with two sim slots. It's super practical if you travel semi-often.

Idk about apple, but basically all of the mid-range androids have this feature. I guess this is about the US though, so it's probably Apple.