My device shouldn't be carrier locked at all. I took out a loan to pay for this thing. They got their money for it immediately.
During the February AT&T outage[1], my wife's phone was affected, and she had to go somewhere. I should've been able to spend $20 on a throwaway e-sim and had it working before she left the house. Instead, I had to shrug my shoulders and suggest she find WiFi wherever she was headed.
Carrier locks in today's age are leftover garbage from a dated, consumer-hostile business model that's no longer practiced. And if I default on my loan repayments, the creditor can garnish my wages.
During the February AT&T outage[1], my wife's phone was affected, and she had to go somewhere. I should've been able to spend $20 on a throwaway e-sim and had it working before she left the house. Instead, I had to shrug my shoulders and suggest she find WiFi wherever she was headed.
Carrier locks in today's age are leftover garbage from a dated, consumer-hostile business model that's no longer practiced. And if I default on my loan repayments, the creditor can garnish my wages.
1: https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/tech/att-cell-service-outage/...