Are routers sim locked?

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Hi all,

I have had the Rain / Afrihost package for a while. I now need to switch providers for better data package and coverage (moved house) and was wondering if Hauwei router B315-s could be used with a new sim card from a different provider? Not sure if they sim lock these units as some cellphones are?

Cell C coverage in my new area is not good so cant continue with Afrihost.

Thanks for your time
 
Normally if telkom then they load their own firmware to prevent you from plugging in a landline and utilizing router to make free telkom to telkom phone calls. If I recall correctly this type of router has a jack for a landline to be connected
 
Thanks - will make it easier to sign up for month to month rather than a contract.

Appreciate the responses,
 
saloojee said:
Normally if telkom then they load their own firmware to prevent you from plugging in a landline and utilizing router to make free telkom to telkom phone calls. If I recall correctly this type of router has a jack for a landline to be connected
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Handset more than landline...
 
Will you please report back with your findings? I also have the B315 through homecloud(telkom) I also want to shift providers.
 
These routers generally work fine across networks. I have my secondary data sim (MTN) in a Vodacom mifi router and my primary (Telkom) in the MTN mifi router. Neighbour has Telkom sim in TP-Link router and we have used various sims in our B315 router at the office.
 
Like I said, the only challenge you may face switching from Telkom to another provider is that not all of the new provider's frequency bands may be available. But at least one of them will, so it will still work. Just might be a bit slower.
 
Tested a CellC card on my router last night, it works, speeds only between 5-8mbps which seems to be the norm for cell c.
 
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