iPhone in Canada Blog - Canada's #1 iPhone Resource: Rogers and Fido: The Only Carrier Authorized iPhone Unlocking in North America

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Rogers and Fido: The Only Carrier Authorized iPhone Unlocking in North America Feb 27th 2012, 17:36 By Gary Ng on February 27th, 2012 0 Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic. With the release of the iPhone 4, Apple introduced the sale of factory unlocked iPhones from their retail stores in Canada. For those that purchase subsidized handsets from Canadian iPhone carriers, devices remain locked to their specific network. Back in December of 2010, Rogers introduced a new device unlocking policy that would allow them to unlock iPhones for a $50 fee. Requirements were that customers had to be in their last year of contracts and have paid back all hardware subsidies. The process involves restoring your iPhone via iTunes after calling into customer service. Along with Fido and SaskTel, these were the only authorized carrier unlockers in Canada. Apple has updated their support page to note only Rogers and Fido are the authorized carriers to offer unlocking in North America (SaskTel was removed from the chart). No carriers in the USA or Mexico offer carrier unlocking. Canada finally gets to have an exclusive. Have you tried unlocking your iPhone via Rogers or Fido? How did it go? Gary Ng Founder and Editor-in-Chief of iPhoneinCanada.ca. Follow @iPhoneinCanada and on Google+. Click here to save 20% OFF at ZAGG.com with coupon 'iphoneinca'!

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