Remember that CDMA (Sprint) is not like GSM as to unlocking. I can't duplicate all those prior discussions why this is so. Also, if the phone was bought from Sprint and was subsidized, well that's well discussed too. What did he do? Sold them on Glyde and got what he wanted.
So I have two iPhones for Sprint (coming in, don;t have them yet) but I want them unlocked. I know that I can request Sprint to unlock these devices, but I want to get a general idea how long on average people who submitted an unlock request to Sprint.

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