The Chilean government doesn’t allow a sim lock on phones. Therefore, users must always be of the telco provider can change. Phones now have a sim free of their security to be stripped.
The ban on simlocks goes on 16 January, writes the Spanish-language site Wayerless. Providers in the country now have web portals set up to phones to unlock it using a generated code. Those sites require that a user’s data, such as imei number to fill in. Then a code can be entered to the sim of the device.
Chile is not the first country that a ban on simlocks maker. Did earlier Israel that already. The reason is that users easily with the same device can switch from a wholesale customer. By a sim lock, users cannot use the device with a sim card from a different service provider.
The reason for simlocks is often that providers the guarantee that users use the phone in conjunction with the provider, so there certainly is earned. In return for a user-usually a discount on the purchase price of a unit. Simlocks are especially common in prepaidpaketten, but also in combination with subscriptions.
Chile has an active government in the area of consumer protection. Earlier it was the South American country the first, with legislation in the area of net neutrality. The netherlands was the second country to it.