Cell phones have become a necessity now; it can either be for professional use or for the personal use. Cell phones with varied features and storage capacities flock the domain of cell phones providing the customers a wide variety of choices. Many cell phones are provided with a specific network by the company itself, making it unable for the customer to use any other SIM card. Unlocking is the only way out for one, to use the locked cell phones to increase its usability.
Virtually most of the handsets in the UK, are locked to the service provider to which you are paying a monthly service fee. Mobile phone networks lock the handsets and they sell it to the customers only after signing the 24 or 36 months contract or they even cripple the handset in some fashion so that you don't take your phone elsewhere for service. Unlocking is a practice where the setting of the cell phone is changed; allowing no one to use any other SIM card other than the one, the company provides the customer. In UK, the mobile operators absorb part of the cost of the mobile expecting you to stay with them until they make back this cost which leads to locking of the mobile phones, meaning using the network connection provided by the company only and not be able to shift it to any other network service. And shifting to other network connections can only be done by jail breaking i.e. unlocking.
The benefits of unlocking:
Freedom to shift
The most important benefit of unlocking is that one can switch to any other network and usually one gets a better deal elsewhere. It would be then possible for the user to use any other SIM card instead be stuck with the one provided by the company. In short, one would not feel being jailed.
Increased value
Mobile phones locked with a specific network connection acts like marking a boundary to move around in. if the mobile phones are unlocked they are free to be used with any SIM card and they are worth much more than the locked handsets in the market. One can sell it for double the money one would have got while selling the locked handset. Selling a locked handset is not an easy task even. One would opt to buy a handset which can be used anywhere and under any network connection.
More flexible
Unlocked cell phones allow many people use different SIM cards in the same phone. It even helps one to use others phones which are not locked when they have run out of charge in the battery of their cell phone. Unlocked cell phones provide cheaper rates to use internet and to make ISD calls. One can shift to different network connections as and when they want according to the changing features available in the market.
Virtually most of the handsets in the UK, are locked to the service provider to which you are paying a monthly service fee. Mobile phone networks lock the handsets and they sell it to the customers only after signing the 24 or 36 months contract or they even cripple the handset in some fashion so that you don't take your phone elsewhere for service. Unlocking is a practice where the setting of the cell phone is changed; allowing no one to use any other SIM card other than the one, the company provides the customer. In UK, the mobile operators absorb part of the cost of the mobile expecting you to stay with them until they make back this cost which leads to locking of the mobile phones, meaning using the network connection provided by the company only and not be able to shift it to any other network service. And shifting to other network connections can only be done by jail breaking i.e. unlocking.
The benefits of unlocking:
Freedom to shift
The most important benefit of unlocking is that one can switch to any other network and usually one gets a better deal elsewhere. It would be then possible for the user to use any other SIM card instead be stuck with the one provided by the company. In short, one would not feel being jailed.
Increased value
Mobile phones locked with a specific network connection acts like marking a boundary to move around in. if the mobile phones are unlocked they are free to be used with any SIM card and they are worth much more than the locked handsets in the market. One can sell it for double the money one would have got while selling the locked handset. Selling a locked handset is not an easy task even. One would opt to buy a handset which can be used anywhere and under any network connection.
More flexible
Unlocked cell phones allow many people use different SIM cards in the same phone. It even helps one to use others phones which are not locked when they have run out of charge in the battery of their cell phone. Unlocked cell phones provide cheaper rates to use internet and to make ISD calls. One can shift to different network connections as and when they want according to the changing features available in the market.