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T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Question: I bought my phone unlocked several years ago. I have AT&T. But apparently, because I didn't buy it from AT&T, my visual voicemail refuses to work

I've tried and given up several times to fix it, and it's not a huge deal; I just miss being able to check my voicemail without calling it.

Do you happen to know anything about this? Every "fix" I've found has failed so far

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sadly, I don't know enough about it to give you advice. Every time I switched phones or services, I had to twaddle with the settings until I could get features (commonly MMS, or SMS with media) so that they worked properly. If AT&T is actually blocking you out for refusing to use an AT&T phone, the trick would be to get the phone to pretend it's an AT&T phone, then way Firefox can pretend it's Chrome when it needs to.

But I don't know the specifics.