Is my iphone 5 "paper weight"?

Owing old bill, want to unlock...(not my bill). It's not on that new plan that was issued in 2013 where you can unlock after 90 days etc... phone is on an older plan.
Question is, is this $300+ phone just paper weight? What can I do with this? I'm willing to pay the $50 unlock fee but I'm no way going to pay the ex owners old bill!
Stuck on Rogers!
Why is it so dam complicated to unlock these things? I mean I couldn't care less about the owing bill to Rogers, it's not mine to owe!
What can I do with this phone?

Bandit76 wrote:
I knew he had a owing balance, but again not my prob.
As you've discovered, you were wrong. It IS your problem, especially if you want to use it as a phone.
If the phone was originally subsidised by the carrier, and the original purchaser skipped out on thier contract without paying it off or paying the ETF, then technically, it's stolen property. It belongs to the carrier. Just like you can't stop paying off the loan for your car and expect to keep it.
The difference is, most carriers won't bother to pursue that. Instead, they will blacklist the phone and ensure that the person who skipped on the contract can't get service with them, and often with any other carrier, until they pay off the debt. Not to mention reporting it to the credit agencies.

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