{"id":933,"date":"2007-08-25T21:17:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T19:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/mobile-operators-liberator.html"},"modified":"2007-08-25T21:17:56","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T19:17:56","slug":"mobile-operators-liberator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=933","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Operators Liberator"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the liberator limo, it goes around Madrid promoting the services of Liberalia, a company that unlocks all the phones that operators provide lock so you don\u00b4t go to their competition. Personally, I am happy that this has not been made ilegal in Spain. I believe that handset subsidies distort the mobile market and lead to a lack of competition.<\/p>\n

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Same happens in the States. For example, when I bought my iPhone, one of the things I criticized<\/a> the most was that it is locked to use it only with AT&T. That is why I am happy to find out that George Hotz (17 years old from New Jersey) figured out how to unlock the iPhone<\/a> and use it with other companies. The hack seems to be complicated though, and requires techie skills since missteps may result in the iPhone becoming useless.<\/p>\n

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This is the liberator limo, it goes around Madrid promoting the services of Liberalia, a company that unlocks all the phones that operators provide lock so you don\u00b4t go to their competition. Personally, I am happy that this has not been made ilegal in Spain. I believe that handset subsidies distort the mobile market and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t