Re: Request to At&t to unlock my iPhone 4.
05-01-2012 08:31:59 AM
Why there apparently is no unlock sticky post in the AT&T Apple forum is beyond me--especially given the dozens and dozens of unlock requests being asked of AT&T here in this thread that will fall on deaf AT&T ears, as far as handling unlock requests are concerned; I would imagine that a sticky would reduce the number of such requests--including those that include IMEI info that undoubtedly creates additional work for mods to have to go into each post in order to remove the posted IMEI...yet we still continue to see "AT&T can you please unlock my phone" posts, many of which (still) include IMEI. Not sure why the AT&T forum mods apparently refuse to create a sticky--the only thing I can think of is that I'm sure most of these posts were made from folks who probably Googled AT&T unlock and got this thread as one of the top hits--thus generating more traffic for the AT&T forum when they eventually click on the link to get them here...which long-term can't be a bad thing for AT&T. I mean, look at the post count of many of these users, the majority of them apparently from outside the U.S.--I'm pretty sure they didn't find out about the iPhone unlock policy simply by just happening to be on the AT&T website and stumbling across the iPhone unlock news release by chance...
In the meantime, we (still) have a sticky for a 99-cent iPhone 3GS which I would imagine there probably isn't nearly much demand for these days, considering that millions and millions of iPhone 4 and 4S models have been sold within the last two years. And before someone tells me that I should simply ask the mods directly--I'm willing to bet that more than a few folks have already asked the mods to create a sticky...
