{"id":4644,"date":"2009-06-15T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/?p=4644"},"modified":"2009-06-14T11:22:49","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T11:22:49","slug":"airtel-allows-unlocked-iphone-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/airtel-allows-unlocked-iphone-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel allows Unlocked iPhone in India"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Apple<\/a>In india there are only two telecom companies which offer iphones ie Airtel<\/a> & Vodafone<\/a> with prices ranging in 30000Rs. But its surprising to know that Airtel officially allows you to unlock<\/a> the handset and use other networks after buying a handset from them. Though this is not a statement from the official Airtel but from the Apple website where it shows that this ‘Carrier offers authorized unlocking<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n

\"Airtel<\/a><\/p>\n

Unlocking a iPhone<\/a> would take not more than 10minutes in total but its not officially allowed, but in this case it can be allowed and here is a reason which i personally feel is true. AT&T and other networks in US & UK offer this handset under a contract which means that you need to continiously pay some monthly charges along with handset EMI for 2 years duration during which the company is going to recover the handset cost and also make money through the consumer calls. But in India, Airtel is selling the handset for 3x times the US price of 199$ which means that Airtel is already over charging their subscribers, hence they dont have to worry even if their customers move away to other networks after purchasing the handsets from them by unlocking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In india there are only two telecom companies which offer iphones ie Airtel & Vodafone with prices ranging in 30000Rs. But its surprising to know that Airtel officially allows you to unlock the handset and use other networks after buying a handset from them. 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