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Article #42Re: No Activation Required at Best Buy?
From: Bob
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 21:16
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 21:16
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it is not illegal to buy a locked phone .then unlock it for another provider..there is no law agaist it..thats your phone...u paid for it...you own it..thats like saying u got a new car..then them saying you cant put after market sound system... UNLOCKING is legal..its your property..no matter what provider it was ment for.... To which <uusolj88fd5g1a@corp.supernews.com>, Michael Yermian <myermian00@hotmail.com> replied: > Umm, no ... it IS illegal... No its not. You are mixing up your 'illegals' here. When you enter the contract and get the phone, you can do whatever you want with the phone - burn it, break it, unlock it, sell it, etc. That is all legal - what the company wanted out of it was the year long contract. Now getting a subsidized phone fraudulently without entering into a required contract - THAT can be illegal but either way the phone is yours to do with as you wish - you'd go to jail for fraud, not theft. The phone is your property to do with as you wish. > It is NOTHING like buying a car and > installing an after market sound system... what your comparing is like > purchasing a Nokia 3360 and then changing the face plate or getting a > flashing battery ... whoopdie doo. Your analogies are way off... next > time make sure the little wheels in your head are spinning before you > comment on something you obviously know nothing about...
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ae63,954e5be92a99ebf9 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ae63,public X-Google-Thread: 109f33,954e5be92a99ebf9 X-Google-Attributes: gid109f33,public X-Google-Thread: f461e,954e5be92a99ebf9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf461e,public X-Google-Thread: 10f383,954e5be92a99ebf9 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f383,public X-Google-Thread: 110038,954e5be92a99ebf9 X-Google-Attributes: gid110038,public X-Google-Thread: ffd09,954e5be92a99ebf9 X-Google-Attributes: gidffd09,public X-Google-Thread: f9250,954e5be92a99ebf9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9250,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-04 13:18:01 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-09!sn-xit-08!supernews.com!nntp2.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.alt.net!oz.net!usenet From: Bob <nospam@4me.com> Newsgroups: alt.cellular.attws,alt.cellular.cingular,alt.cellular.ericsson,alt.cellular.gsm,alt.cellular.gsm.carriers.voicestream,alt.cellular.nokia,att.wireless Subject: Re: No Activation Required at Best Buy? Date: 4 Dec 2002 21:16:10 GMT Lines: 31 Message-ID: <aslraq$8gf$0@216.39.173.68> References: <YUpG9.42902$kz4.2176212@news2.west.cox.net> <uumtrh88hq5o76@corp.supernews.com> <OIKG9.54949$kz4.2660292@news2.west.cox.net> <te%G9.398$zd1.335578@news.uswest.net> <3decbd52$0$22216$a1866201@newsreader.visi.com> <5%8H9.21700$Fi7.332224@twister.kc.rr.com> <uuqegt2pbub498@corp.supernews.com> <wQbH9.39742$ry.373879@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com> <uur0042ienptd7@corp.supernews.com> <3uoH9.32914$Xr6.379336@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com> <uusolj88fd5g1a@corp.supernews.com> Reply-To: <no.spam@4me.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.39.173.68 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Thoth/1.5.7 (Carbon/OS X)