Thinking of grabbing an iPhone and unlocking to use it, well, anywhere other than on AT&T’s network? Well, it turns out that one shop, iphoneunlocking.com” has received a letter from the Nazgul AT&T’s legal team.
iphoneunlocking.com, a subsidiary of UniquePhones (www.uniquephones.com). was poised and ready to release remote software unlocking services for the iphone today at 12 noon EST. The sale of unlocking codes is on hold after the company received a telephone call from a Menlo Park, California, law firm at approximately 2:54 a.m. this morning (GMT).
After saying they were phoning on behalf of AT&T, the law firm presented issues such as copyright infringement and illegal software dissemination. Uniquephones is taking legal advice to ascertain whether AT&T was sending a warning shot or directly threatening legal action. The logistics of different continents as well as it being a weekend factors into how the situation develops.
I guess we may have to wait a little longer or buy a soldering gun.
[tags]iPhone Unlocking, iPhone, AT&T Lawyer[/tags]