Re: X A Iphone Country
Guillermina Bordner
HI, bought a IPhone 6s Plus from the US Amazon, sealed and brand new, unlocked sim free and had is shipped over to Greece where I live. Tried to install my Greek SIM card but it doesn't accept it saying the carrier does not support this card and to install a card that's acceptable. So bought a AT&T from the US and it works but there is no signal of course. Someone told me it might be "country locked" because nobody knows anything about it. Please help.
Thanks for the reply. It's all about cost my friend! Could buy almost half price from the US thats why I bought from the States. Have contacted AT&T and they said they will unlock the phone, however I in the meantime have contacted people who unlock phones and on said it country locked that's why I have asked about that. As for the warranty it works in Greece too, I have already spoken to the Apple here and there is a coverage. Amazon refuses to take the phone back because I had it forwarded to me by a carrier and not directly shipped to me...(US Amazon does not ship to Europe so I have a forwarding company there that sends things).
The phone is Carrier locked, not country locked. A country locked phone does not exist. If you buy a phone from a particular carrier such as AT&T in the US, then it will be locked to them and this is carrier locked, so the phone that you purchased from Amazon is locked to AT&T.
There is absolutely no way that you can use this phone, because you need to request that AT&T unlock the phone and they will not do that unless you are a customer of them and have used their network for at least 40 days. That is bad luck for you and perhaps you should not have purchased the phone from Amazon US - why did you do this without checking?
You know that with a US phone you have no warranty support for the phone? If you had purchased the phone in another European country, then you would have warranty on the phone in Greece because you have EU warranty that covers all EU countries.
You need to return the phone to Amazon and get a full refund for the phone because they have actually mis sold it to you by stating that the phone was unlocked and as you have since found, the phone is not unlocked and is in fact locked to AT&T. That is mis representing the goods on the website, so you need to return and ask for a full refund and tell them that you would not have purchased the phone if you knew that it had been locked.
People who unlock phones as you put it, do NOT unlock them legitimately and a lot of the time, they have no clue what they are talking about, as in this case, there is no such thing as 'Country Locked' - it is carrier locked as has been proved by the phone being locked to AT&T, so this proves that they have no clue what they are talking about.
Whatever you do, DO NOT get an unlocking company to unlock your phone because they don't - they hack it to unlock it, so the minute you do a software update, the phone will again revert to being locked to the original carrier and if your phone is hacked it will void your warranty, so be warned. If AT&T have said that they will unlock the phone, then do it through them and only them.
Hello all and thanks for the replies. Your replies are helpful but even though it did cost me more than I thought it would and still don't have a usable phone and that hurts, I am made to feel like I have done something terribly wrong here and that I should pay for it! This is a Apple forum and I am a big apple fan having another 4 iPhones bought for me and family, two iPads etc. Instead of making people fell even worst than they feel in the first place, we should try in a nice humane manner to help and be polite otherwise we should refrain from answering. It does people more damage than good.
Amazon is not an authorized distributor for iPhones. There is nothing anyone can do about it. In the future, you would be wise to stick to authorized distributors. Preferably, those in your own country.
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