[GTALUG] Re: Telus anyone?

On 9/7/25 22:28, Alvin Starr via Talk wrote:

Life for unlocked phones became much easier when everybody moved to GSM now LTE.

I have never had a locked phone and I've been buying them for 30 years.  The way to avoid locked phones was to buy them separate from a contract.  I don't think locking was even possible with the 1G analog phones.  In fact, they could be switched between the A (Rogers) and B (Bell in this area) carriers.  The reason for locking was so that people wouldn't buy a "cheap" phone on contract and then try to take it with them to another carrier, before they finished paying for it.  Those contracts were an expensive way to buy a phone and fortunately those days are long gone.