Iphone 4 purchased outside UK doesn't work here
I bought a brand new iphone outside UK (Afghanistan) it worked until I entered UK. Over here when a new UK simcard was put, it said, 'no sim' and basically it keeps rejecting the simcard... anyone else experianced this? Please share how I can solve this issue? Some shopkeepers here told me it is 'locked' but it wasn't back home?!
There are a few reasons why this may have occured.
The first is that as the person above me has said that the seller may have been sold to you through an illegitimate source and is therefore unreliable hardware; which may have been incapable of surviving high alitudes on your return flight.
The second would be the phone is locked to a specific carrier (I don't know any Afghan carriers but an example in this country would be O2 putting a lock on your phone in order to ensure you stay with them and in return they part subsidise your purchase). This can be solved by contacting the carrier who you origianlly used the phone with.
The third and final reason is that the Phone uses different bands. For example in America not all networks can use the iPhone due to the use of different spectrums. This would be totally unsolvable short of buying a new phone.
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