IMEI iPhone Unlock Services Discontinued For Good

A couple of weeks earlier, literally every blog and site covering iPhone unlocks in particular and Apple in general blew up with posts on remote IMEI based iPhone unlocking solutions that were being offered by a company called CutYourSIM. We however chose a different path and chose to ignore that. Now, as it turns out, that very remote iPhone unlock service has been discontinued for good. Reason, after the break.

It turns out, CutYourSIM wasn’t itself aware of how the remote unlocking was done. Basically the company asked users seeking for a permanent GSM iPhone unlock to provide them with the IMEI which later when to their source, which did the remote iPhone unlocking. The service came at a price tag of $169.99.

Actually when you get your iPhone unlocked from the carrier, the carrier adds the IMEI of your iPhone to its ‘whitelist’ making the iPhone useable on any GSM network worldwide. So this source of CutYourSIM might have had access to the ‘whitelist’ of carriers in the UK. Is it possible that this source of CutYourSIM is an Apple employee?

CutYourSIM has done over 400 remote iPhone unlocks already, but due to the stoppage of service from its ‘supplier’ the company has stopped taking further orders and has also refunded the full amount to those customers whose unlocks were still queued up. Their source says that the service may return soon, but honestly, we think otherwise.