• xuniL@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      You can, just not if it’s locked to a specific carrier. Carriers often do that to prevent people from rooting their phone or removing Carrier identification to resell the phone. Stupid design either way

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        It may not be the case anymore but in the past you could go into Verizon and ask/tell them to unlock the phone once it was paid off and they would. I did it probably 12 years ago at this point but also haven’t had Verizon in 8+ years

      • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        I mean…. that kinda makes sense. They don’t want someone to skip out on payments. There’s no excuse for ASUS though