No one has the right to lock you down on a particular operator. When Apple announced iPhone for the first time, many were expecting it to be on the lines of Nokia, Sony Ericcson, Samsung, LG etc…where all you got to do is, buy the phone from the store, take out the sim from your old phone, toss it on to your iPhone and boom!!!! iPhone unleashed…..
But soon Apple came up with a hurdle. If you want to buy iPhone, you should be with AT&T Cingular. In other words, iPhone will work only on an AT&T network and not anyone else. All those T-Mobile fan boys who were eagerly waiting for the iPhone to happen are suddenly now in distress. It is suddenly impossible to get an iPhone without changing your phone number. Some were willing to sacrifice, while others wept and wept and wept and…..
But soon a brilliant team of developers put their brains and minds into unlocking iPhone by hacking into it. It took them almost 75 days to come up with a simple iphone unlocking solution which the common man could use (harder unlocking methods came out much before that). But they did it. Finally iPhone can dial on a non AT&T sim. Freedom for iPhone. Apple iPhone liberated from the clutches of AT&T Cingular.