Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks
First of all I like to clearly state that here unlocking phones or modems are meant to unlocking of the operator, not jail-breaking or rooting or hacking of the device.
Modem or handset unlocking is something which provides the user freedom to choose his operator keeping behind his old abusing & costly operator. Also as the customer pays for the device and owns the device 100% it is his decision to unlock or not, there is no space for operators.
As you unlock the device, the warranty gets void. But these modems are made in such way that these generally do not get dead easily unless you mess up the firmware and make it dead.Some people sell unlocking solutions on ebay, and interestingly Ebay deleted those stuffs tagging them illegal. Well it is not proper treatment.
Operators & Devices
Now most operators are selling modems and other devices locked with their network. Reliance, which is selling unlocked 3G modems, brought the 3G Tab locked with its GSM network. Personally I don’t like it because Reliance sold their unlocked modems more than any operators except Idea.
Idea is the king of 3G modem sales; with its 2G data offerings under Netsetter brands they sold thousands of Huawei modems. Though Idea Netsetter modems come locked, it is damn easy to unlock. Unlocking GSM modems are easy, just Google it and you will get thousands of helpful posts over the internet.
Recently I came across new Huawei E1550 as Idea Netsetter packed on 6/11 which can not unlocked with traditional methods. Nirav Soni, a popular modem unlocker informs us that: