Get your Vodafone UK handset unlocked — free
Whatley picked up this tip earlier today. I never knew that Vodafone were shipping unlocked handsets to their contract customers.
Apparently, if we’re to believe Vodafone blog rep, Peter Edward (posting on N95users.com), Vodafone started shipping network unlocked handsets out to contract customers earlier this year. Here’s his comment:
Good afternoon everyone,
moshah is correct- we can now unlock contract handsets for free.
From earlier this year all new handsets sent out on contract accounts are network unlocked, so it’d hardly be fair for us to still charge existing contract customers to unlock their phones.
The £19.99 inc. V.A.T. charge does still apply to Pay As You Talk handsets, unless they’re over 12 months old in which case we can issue the codes free of charge as before.
Happy to help,
edwardpeter
Vodafone UK
I’ll confirm shortly.
Oooh. And there’s a link on there to version 20 of the n95’s firmware for vodafone handsets. A-gps here I come!
Posted by Tom on February 26th, 2008 at 7:17 pm.most of the N95’s shipped by vodafone for the first 2 months were shipped unlocked.
Posted by pat phelan on February 26th, 2008 at 8:05 pm.bit of bluster I reckon from Voda
Fair play to Vodafone, Hopefully they’ll soon offer their customers a free unlocking of phones from another Vodafone country. I know of a few people that want to use a Vodafone SIM from one country in a Vodafone handset in another and can’t. Should be a no brainer.
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Posted by Anthony on February 27th, 2008 at 12:43 am.I got my N95 8GB unlocked for free on PAYT only had the SIM a few months too but the phone would have been on a vodafone contract from before xmas from the last owner, the vodafone rep asked how long I had it I said a good while and they gave me the unlock code, I was waiting for my £20 credit to disappear but it never did, though I just got lucky but I guess it was because of this.
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Posted by Ciaran Rooney on February 27th, 2008 at 12:58 am.i dont know nck mean.i have vodafone 716.but does not know nck password.can u tell me. please
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