Verizon just bulk-unlocked ALL iPhone 4s - When will Sprint follow?

Only Sprint can give you a definitve answer to that question.

Best of luck.

Only Sprint could possibly answer that question, and my sympathies if you ever have to talk to Sprint about anything.

We're just users here and are not privy to what Apple, Sprint or any other company are up to. A post like this may fall afoul of the forum's TOU due to its speculative nature.

Finally, note that you HAVE to do something for the unlock to occur. In this case, the upgrade did the trick. In other cases, it entails wiping it clean and Restoring from a backup or setting up as new. As for the Sprint issue, I believe we would have to check the specific model numbers of the iPhones involved. IIRC, Sprint uses CDMA and not GSM, which essentially makes the device permanently locked, since that technology does not use a SIM.

Courcoul wrote:

As for the Sprint issue, I believe we would have to check the specific model numbers of the iPhones involved. IIRC, Sprint uses CDMA and not GSM, which essentially makes the device permanently locked, since that technology does not use a SIM.

The Sprint iPhone 4S, like the Verizon version, is both CDMA and GSM. If unlocked, the GSM should work on any compatible GSM network. The only iPhone ever made that came in a CDMA only version was the iPhone 4.

Note that Verizon did this voluntarily. There is no law nor FCC ruling that required them to do so. So Sprint is under no obligation to do so as well (in other words, I wouldn't hold your breath waiting). See http://www.prepaidphonenews.com/2015/02/nice-verizon-just-unlocked-unlocked.html

Good news for all of you, or at least the Verizon subscribers.

Back here (Mexico), the carriers were quite accustomed to be bloodsucking vampires. After years of abuse, the Government finally listened to the voters (instead of the lobbyists) and passed a very severe Telecomm law that abolished all this customer capture. So now when you get a phone with plan (instead of a prepaid), you deal with a financial services company which subsidizes the device and is independent of the carrier. And you can switch to any carrier with 24-hours notice. Wouldn't believe how much cheaper cellular telephony has become, with even better levels of service. Gotta keep the customers from hopping over to the competition, do we?