Hi,
I have a legitimate iPhone 4S activated on PagePlus's $30/month plan. I'd like to remove the SIM lock on the phone. When I remove the Verizon SIM and insert a foreign SIM in, the phone reminds me that I need to contact my carrier for an unlock.
I called 1-800-711-8300 (Verizon Global Support), and gave them the phone number, the woman was chatty, but said that since it was activated via a 3rd party reseller, she could not see anything on the account. Additionally, she could not search by MEID.
She gave me the number for PagePlus, but she didn't know they'd be able to help. Overall, my experience with PagePlus has been mediocre, every time I'm told "iPhone is not allowed on PagePlus" so I'm not really expecting them to know how to process an unlock.
The phone originally came from a post-paid VZW account, so it's valid, does anyone know if I can have the SIM lock removed?
I believe that the phone would have to be unlocked by Verizon and to do that it would have to be on a Verizon post paid account at the time of the unlock. Here is an article that talks about how to get Verizon to do it for you, but I don't think there is anything Page Plus can do to unlock the phone.
Pardon me for interjecting here, and for possible ignorance, but VZW/PPC = CDMA, and SIM phones are GSM (obviously not counting iDen or LTE), OR possibly a combo world phone. How does that fit with a VZW iPhone? Just curious.
Pardon me for interjecting here, and for possible ignorance, but VZW/PPC = CDMA, and SIM phones are GSM (obviously not counting iDen or LTE), OR possibly a combo world phone. How does that fit with a VZW iPhone? Just curious.
The iPhone 4S is a dual mode (CDMA/GSM) phone, with a physical micro-SIM. When in CDMA mode, the phone is locked to Sprint/Verizon/KT/KDDI, etc. If you pull the (strangely issued Verizon) SIM out, the phone restarts the activation process to see if it should allow any SIM.
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Originally Posted by whacker
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