What carrier is my phone with?

I recently purchased an iphone4 off of kijiji and do not have a sim card for it yet how do I know what carrier (Rogers, Telus, etc.) it is with?
The guy I bought it from says he could not tell me.

The guy you bought it from had no idea who the carrier was? You entered into a financial transaction with this guy? He never used it or paid a bill to some carrier? So where did he get it from?
Good grief.

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OK. My friend had bought an iPhone 4 online, second hand. He does not have the SIM card. He had recently changed his passcode and FORGOT IT, and we had to restore it. The problem is that, after we restored, it askes for the SIM activation. And none of us have a MICRO SIM Card. So my question is how can I find out what carrier the iPhone is with if it is stuck on the welcome screen and if I can borrow someone elses SIM card to activate the phone so he can use it.
(we could not contact the person he bought the iPhone from to find out what carrier it is with.)

Go to the apple store and they will figure out what sim card it is.

I have just pre ordered the new iphone 5 it didn't give me an option to tell them what carrier im with? will it come with a nano sim?

I pre ordered an iphone 5 this morning, (first time i have ordered from apple) it didn't give me an option to select a carrier? is this normal? will it come with a nano sim if it didn't let me tell them what carrier im with? i dont want to get my new phone and not be able to use it
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roncoe wrote:
They've created a new SIM for this phone--the micro-SIM. Different SIM tray and all. If you ordered from Apple.com selecting the carrier was step two of the process.
iPhone 5 confirmed to use nano-SIM, current SIMs not compatible.
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Hello i try to use another SIM card with my iphone 4s now it said i need to unlock the phone with my Sim carrier ... here is what it says below
The SIM card inserted in this iPhone does not appear to be supported.
The SIM card that you currently have installed in this iPhone is from a carrier that is not supported under the activation policy that is currently assigned by the activation server. This is not a hardware issue with the iPhone. Please insert another SIM card from a supported carrier or request that this iPhone be unlocked by your carrier. Please contact Apple for more information.

So.. You need to contact the carrier for the iPhone's original sim card, and request they unlock it. The carrier is the only one that can unlock the sim of the iPhone.

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I recently sold a brand new iPhone 4S on eBay to a person in another country. The phone was unlocked.
He started an eBay dispute and said the phone was not working and wanted to return it.
He returned what looked like my phone. Same specs and everything but with a different serial number and imei number.
I called up Apple and they said that it indeed looked like the phones had been switched, but could not give me any information regarding the phone I had received back, other than it was not a european country.
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If Apple was unable to tell you, no.
Why would you accept a return that is different from the iPhone you sent?
Certainly you didn't credit this person but if you did, you need to take this up with eBay. The same iPhone needs to be returned to you for payment credit, or get your payment back and return the wrong iPhone you received - unless you brown market folks don't care.
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Hi there.
I use an iPhone with the Canadian provider, Fido. I purchased the phone from Fido and signed up for a 3 year contract in order to recieve the phone at the reduced price. I understand that Fido performs a carrier lock on the phone when you sign up in this way so that the phone can only be used on the Fido network.
At the moment I am in the process of cancelling my contract with Fido and switching over to another provider in Canada. After doing some research, I found out that Fido offers a service where they will unlock your phone from their network when you finish your contract, for a fee. Since I am cancelling my contract and paying the early cancellation penalty, my contract will be satisfied and I will be eligible for the unlock service. My plan is to have my iPhone unlocked by Fido so that I can use the phone with my new provider.
My question is this: If I have my phone legitimately unlocked by my provider, will Apple send me an unlocked phone in the event that their is a hardware failure covered under warranty, and I need a replacement iPhone? All my previous replacement iPhones have been, to my knowledge, locked by Apple back onto my provider before they are sent to me. But, it would be awfully annoying if a replacement phone came to me locked onto an old network that I no longer use.
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Are you sure about this? I thought so too, but when I received my replacement iPhone 6, it was locked again.
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If an iPhone has been unlocked (obviously by a carrier), why would you replace it with a locked iPhone and ask the customer to contact his carrier and request another unlock for the replacement iPhone? So inefficient and could be a problem if the carrier allows only one unlock per year per line like most do, or if you are no longer a customer of that carrier.
Interestingly I found the following on Apple's "Hardware Warranty". Retrieved from: https://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/products/ios-warranty-document-us.html):
"Following warranty service your Apple Product or a replacement device will be returned to you as your Apple Product was configured when originally purchased, subject to applicable updates.”
What I understand from this is that replacements will be configured exactly as the originally purchased including any updates made to it. I believe unlock is considered an update.
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what carrier is was it purchased for? is it originally an ATT,verizon, tmobile, etc? borrow someones sim card that has that original carrier just to activate the phone. then once its activated, you can unlock it with no problems. (:

I'm stuck at the activation stage! I don't have the original sim card and I don't know what carrier it was originally on! How can I get into my phone?

I was wondering if there was any way of accessing my iPhone 4 without a micro sim card. I am currently at the activating section, and after it tells you to find WIFI, it says to enter a sim card. I bought this iPhone off of my friend and he took out his original sim card! I dont know what carrier he was using. Is there any way I can access the phone just to play music on it for now?

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Only the carrier to whom the device is locked can unlock it.
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