Originally Posted by JSemple3:
“Just a quickie. I've bought a 6700 Slide which is locked to O2 (No good for me as I need it for t-mobile) Would it be poss for me to take that phone direct into a O2 or T-Mobile shop and get it unlocked there and then? I wouldn't mind paying a small fee for it to be done.”
It depends on the network (which would be O2 in your case), I think. You may also have an issue in that even PAYG phones can be lightly subsidised, and so they may not unlock it until you've used it for a few months / a year.
My experience with Orange (circa 2008):
It required an active SIM (to put onto the bill or take credit away for the unlocking fee), and it took weeks.
When I enquired as to why it took forever, I was told that Orange only owned one machine that could generate the codes (I guess Nokia tightly controls it) and that it was broken.
Assuming that someone has developed a unlock for the backstreet vendor types, you might have more luck doing what you want there.