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Iphone 5 SE Three unlock?

  • 08-05-2017 11:52am
    #1
    Headshot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,943 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi Guys.

    Can the Iphone 5SE be unlocked from the Three network so I can use a different sim in it?

    I've rang different phone shops and im getting mixed messages.

    Just love a definite answer


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  • #2
    Blazer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,473 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    Headshot wrote: »
    Hi Guys.

    Can the Iphone 5SE be unlocked from the Three network so I can use a different sim in it?

    I've rang different phone shops and im getting mixed messages.

    Just love a definite answer
    Simple answer, depends on whether ready to go or bill pay.
    Ready to go I think you had to spend €180 on it before they unlocked it, for bill contract has to be completed


  • #3
    Headshot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,943 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    Blazer wrote: »
    Simple answer, depends on whether ready to go or bill pay.
    Ready to go I think you had to spend ?180 on it before they unlocked it, for bill contract has to be completed

    It's bill pay and was an upgrade

    But surely a phone shop can unlock it no? I find that very strange.


  • #4
    Blazer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,473 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    Headshot wrote: »
    It's bill pay and was an upgrade

    But surely a phone shop can unlock it no? I find that very strange.

    Nope, only apple can unlock it, three send off a unlock request to apple who will unlock it and the phone is then connected to iTunes and pick up the unlock from apple.


  • #5
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,633 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    AFAIK a request for an unlock can be done after 6 months of your contract have completed. Once the network ask for it then it comes through from Apple fairly quickly, within a week or so.

    Also, on a pedantic point, just for your own info if you ever try to sell it, the phone is an iPhone SE and not SE5.


  • #6
    whiterebel
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭whiterebel


    For some reason the unlockers don't seem to have an inside track with 3, and iPhones can't (or at least couldn't) be unlocked. I think 3 will only unlock when the contract is completed.


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  • #7
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,633 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    whiterebel wrote: »
    For some reason the unlockers don't seem to have an inside track with 3, and iPhones can't (or at least couldn't) be unlocked. I think 3 will only unlock when the contract is completed.

    Ok, that gives me another reason never to join 3 so.


  • #8
    waynegalway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,684 ✭✭✭waynegalway


    3 only unlock when the contract is completed. I asked them about it when I was 3 months away from finishing the contract, as I was due for an early upgrade and wanted to be able to sell an unlocked phone. The line I got from Three was "if you want the phone unlocked 3 months before the contract ends, you have to pay us in advance for those 3 months". Essentially I would have had to buy-out the rest of my contract if I wanted the phone unlocked ahead of time.


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