Having bought your iPhone it’s quite probable that you will also want to know how to get iPhone to work on other phone services. Apple originally offers iPhones with a two-year service plan that basically locks customers to AT&T and the contract-breaking fee can be just a bit too high, so you have no other choice but to find an alternative way on how to get your iPhone to work on other phone services.

Why Not AT&T?

Although it is claimed by Apple that the largest phone service provider in the United States is AT&T, two-thirds of the customers still use other services. Many consider the wireless network and Internet connection of AT&T not very good, moreover some customers are not happy with their pricing. Then there are those who live in Canada, or the countries of Europe where iPhone is not yet officially available. Surely, if they want to use an iPhone, they cannot use it on AT&T’s phone service, so they will want to know how to get their iPhones to work on other phone services as well. And why should they be deprived of the great enjoyment of using iPhones?

Do You Have to Hack Your Iphone?

Well, there was a brief period in Germany around the end of 2007, when iPhones were actually sold unlocked, as the usual practices of Apple of locking iPhones to one carrier were not in accordance with German laws. However, eventually T-Mobile was granted exclusive rights to sell iPhones with a locked SIM card, so apart from this, if you want to connect to another phone service before the end of your contract, you will certainly have to hack it in one way or another.

So, the ultimate answer to the question of how to get iPhone to work on other phone services, is by way of hacking, unlocking. Nowadays, there is a range of methods to choose from to unlock your iPhone, you can get services where you have to pay a smaller fee, or there are innumerable tutorials on the Internet about the steps of unlocking your iPhone and successfully connecting it to another phone service.

What Else Should You Know?

Well, the answer to how to get your iPhone to work on other phone services seems to be quite simple, and the process of actually hacking your iPhone is rather easy as well. However, you should be aware of the fact that naturally Apple does not support these kinds of developments. So, with their firmware updates that fix bugs and add new features to your iPhone, they also try to stop hacking. It can quite easily happen that with a  new update your hacked iPhone using another phone service will be permanently bricked and rendered useless.