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This is sad.

In Brazil, my home country, is illegal for a carrier to not unlock your phone if you ask.

In Brazil, it's illegal for carriers to subsidize their phones. It's the carrier subsidy that gives rise to network locking here in the U.S. If you buy the phone at retail price, the carrier will unlock it if you ask.

Not true. We also have contract subsidized phones, and you can still unlock and use your phone however you want, you still have the contract to fulfill, or you can pay the ETF and be done with it.

Is this inaccurate? http://www.androidauthority.com/brazil-carriers-stop-selling...

Same in France for instance

The EU has been good for mobile phone pricing.

£12.50 a month for unlimited data (and enough minutes and texts), oh yeah.

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