EE- iPhone 4 needs unblocked to use O2

[Anonymous]

Can anyone help with a cheaper way of getting an iPhone 4 unblocked from EE so can use my O2 sim, being quoted £100 to unblock, surely there's a cheaper way to do this, been with O2 for years & sick of EE after a month of problems.
Anyone out there able to help point me to cheaper way to unblock my phone, be much appreciated,

Thsnks Hendu

[jonsie]

Ask EE to unblock it, costs nothing like a £100

I also believe Game now unlock iphones and read the link below for help.

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/feature/mobile-phone/how-unlock-any-iphone-use-any-sim-3623420/

[MI5]

It's £8.99 now I believe from EE
http://ee.co.uk/help/getting-started/joining-ee/unlocking-your-device

[viridis]

Mate, it's a pain but it does come through eventually.
Get ee payg sim
Put on a tenner top up
*important*...
...register the payg account with EE online (if you don't, the unlock request will fail)
After a day, fill out the ee unlock form
Wait 14 days.
You will get an email telling you to sync to iTunes to finish the unlock.

[Anonymous]

I work for EE. The process has been updated. You can now pay for it to be unlocked in store

Just go to ur local ee store, say you would like it unlocked they will take cash/card payment and in 14 days it will be unlocked

[Cleoriff]

Hi @Anonymous Thanks for that information. Can I ask though why it actually takes 14 days to unlock? That seems a hell of a long time for a relatively simple process?

[Anonymous]

I often ask myself the same thing. I guess the EMT Team (our unlocking experts) dont have such a big team!

I had a note 4 for with o2 and it was unlocked in a few hours after the request

[Cleoriff]

One of our members  @viridis...holds the record for O2 unlocking (reported on here) 6 minutes for his latest device...

[viridis]

Yup 6 long arduous minutes.
Tab z4 took 18 hrs tho, I was fewmin'

Cleo, the iphones take same time with others too, they have to send a request to apple with the imei so it can be done on the apple servers. All part of security being kept within apple control.

[Anonymous]

oddly eough we advise 7 days for Apple and 7-10 for anything else. I tend to say 14 so it makes it look better when they get it sooner lol