UK firm preps iPhone unlocking software

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Published Friday 6th July 2007 10:37 GMT

A UK firm that specialises in unlocking mobile phones reckons it’s close to developing an application that would allow iPhone owners to use the device with carriers other than America’s AT&T.

John McLaughlin, founder of Uniquephones, told IDG that his software engineers were working “around the clock” in order to bypass Apple’s restriction that ties activation of the iPhone to signing up to a two-year contract with AT&T.