Imei number registered to someone else cant unlock

I have an iphone thats' imei number is registered to someone else , does that mean i cant unlock it because it itsnt registered to me ?

Carriers will generally only authorize unlocking for the last person to use the phone on their network. If not you, your only choices are to either establish service yourself, then request the phone be unlocked, or get whoever used it last on the network to request the unlock.

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    Hi ,
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