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Completely OT...
Ok, seems you guys are the only "smart" guys on the net. I bought my daughter a Motorola I465 Clutch cell phone that is "keyed" to the Boost network. I use the Sprint/Nextel network and need it to work there. I can't seem to find a place that will Unlock it for me. Ya'll have any experience or ideas? 
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Ok, seems you guys are the only "smart" guys on the net. I bought my daughter a Motorola I465 Clutch cell phone that is "keyed" to the Boost network. I use the Sprint/Nextel network and need it to work there. I can't seem to find a place that will Unlock it for me. Ya'll have any experience or ideas?
Down here in Huntsville, Ala-freakin-bama...not to sound racist, but in my experience, find a convenience store in the worst "hood", and somebody in there can unlock that phone for you...lol...and they'll do it cheap...
BUT DON'T GO AFTER DARK...i made that mistake when i had my Trans Am...i got to bondo bullet holes...great experience...
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Ha ! or..... look on Craigslist and find somebody that's selling "unlocked" cell phones. They have a source to unlock them for sure. It's crazy, cell phones should be "open" to work on all systems. It's just another way to get our money. Good look and be careful out there !
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Here's the issue. I'm not sure Sprint will activate that phone on their network. We as manufacturers have to send every single serial number (and a lot of other data) to CDMA carriers so they can load that info into their system. If that phone is set up as a Boost phone, they will know it. It's not like GSM where you can simply unlock the phone and slap any SIM card in it. Verizon, Sprint, and most all other CDMA carriers will not just activate any phone on their NW. My job is to test every phone model ahead of time to ensure they meet the carriers' requirements before they allow customers to use them. AT&T & T-Mobile do the same thing, but obviously, they can't control unlocked phones. However, GSM is sort of like Linux -- open standard. If you can build a phone that meets those standards (and they are tested ahead of time too), then they meet the standards on all GSM networks, with pretty good certainty.
