Unlocking Orange N95 during contract

[randomfan]

Don't know if this is of any interest to anybody, but I've just had my Orange contract N95 unlocked through Orange directly. Wanted to do this as I'm going abroad for a while soon, and don't fancy paying roaming charges for all the local calls i'll be making. Called them on Tuesday, the guy I spoke to said the fact that I'm only 7 months into my 18 months contract isn't a problem, so he took my IMEI and added £20 to my next bill. He said the unlock code needs to come from Nokia, and it would take 7-10 days, but I got the email after only 5 days with the unlock code and very clear instructions (and it worked, obviously).

So yeah, I remember people talking about getting a PAYG SIM, load it with £20 and then ask to unlock by calling Orange using that SIM rather than your contract one. Looks like that's not really necessary.

No idea what the other networks' procedures are though.

[Graffen]

T-Mobile's procedure is very similar, I phoned them up after having the phone for about 2 months and they didn't have any problems with me wanting to unlock my phone.

Admitidly the first unlocking code they sent out was wrong, but they corrected it quickly after I phoned and told them.

[rabbitrr]

Orange sent off for the unlock code for my N95 for me the day I got it.... about an hour after the delivery bod dropped it off! Cost me 20 beer tokens and I got the code about 5 days later. Plus it was one of the first ones they sent out to customers as well...