Unlocking new Bold

**petee76** · 05-05-2012, 03:50 PM

I recently won 2 new bold 9930's from a contest sponsore by Verizon. As you can assume they are locked to Verizon. Unfortunately Iam with T-Mobile. How can I get these unlocked for free if Verizon won't do it? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

**mikeplus1** · 05-05-2012, 04:21 PM

Verizon will not unlock it if you do not have a current account in good standing with them. You also cannot use it on another CDMA network because they will not let you register the ESN from a different carriers phone on their CDMA network. But you can unlock it to use it on a GSM network such as T-Mobile or an overseas carrier like Vodafone if you buy a pre-paid sim card for instance while traveling abroad. There are a few very reasonable unlock services here on CrackBerry like "FreeThisBerry.com" and "CellUnlock.net" just to name a couple and some offer discounts to CB members. There is also "MyBlackberryUnlock.com" which offers free and instant unlocking services. Check out the Unlocking Companies and Promotions forums here on CB for more information.

**mikeplus1** · 05-05-2012, 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by petee76

I recently won 2 new bold 9930's from a contest sponsore by Verizon. As you can assume they are locked to Verizon. Unfortunately Iam with T-Mobile. How can I get these unlocked for free if Verizon won't do it? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

By the way, you could also sell them to a deserving or needy CB member in the CrackBerry Marketplace forums, but I think you need 50 posts before you can sell there.

**freethisberrydotcom** · 05-06-2012, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by mikeplus1

Verizon will not unlock it if you do not have a current account in good standing with them. You also cannot use it on another CDMA network because they will not let you register the ESN from a different carriers phone on their CDMA network. But you can unlock it to use it on a GSM network such as T-Mobile or an overseas carrier like Vodafone if you buy a pre-paid sim card for instance while traveling abroad. There are a few very reasonable unlock services here on CrackBerry like "FreeThisBerry.com" and "CellUnlock.net" just to name a couple and some offer discounts to CB members.

Thanks for the recommendation!