Is unlocking a mobile phone legal?
Unlocking a mobile phone is legal in most countries. For more information about the laws and regulations on unlocking please click here, we also advice you to contact the respective officials in your country to find out more about sim lock laws and regulations.
You can get free Unlock code for some old phones at Unlock-free.com and unlock it easily.
It is completely legal to unlock a phone in the UK. There is often a misconception that it is in some way illegal to unlock a phone. This is something that the networks themselves are understandably not keen to clarify as they do not want people to unlock their phones. However, the fact remains that it is totally legal to unlock a phone in the UK. If the phone is “blocked” by the network i.e. the bills have not been paid or it has been reported stolen, etc, then it is understandably illegal to unblock the phone.
