Is this possible??

[ishaanranderia]

I live in india and my friend just got a nokia 6600 from uk under a contract, he came here and unlocked the phone, so he practically got the phone for a quater of its cost. Is this possible, i mean are the contract phones just available to anyone? if so the service providers can loose a lot of money this way. Also can i too get a phone this way if i want to?

[mindhacker]

Yes, that is possible. You can unlock phones.
But most of the time you get ugly "vodafone" or "orange" logos on the phone, which would ruin it.

[Andy]

of course, if your friend signed for a 12 month contract with no intention of fulfilling it, your friend would be guilty of fraud.
and if lots of people behave in this manner, legitimate customers will suffer the backlash

[14charusername]

In the US at least, contracts are written with substantial early termination fees, on the order of $150 to $250 per line. I assume that the UK contract would have a similar provision. Although the carrier would probably have a difficult time trying to extract such a fee from someone solely residing in India with Indian citizenship.

[fox]

it's not fraud if he's still paying the line rental