Unlocking 5G Router : Rain the zero - help needed

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I just got this router and it works fine with my Rain SIM card, however where I plan to use it there is no Rain coverage.

Anyone that has any advise on how to unlock this? It only takes Rain SIM cards.

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Anyone that has advice on how to unlock these? I assume it is a kind of Huawei device.
 
probably cant, because Rain locks these down heavily, like Multichoice locked down their USB tv thingies they had a while back.

be very surprised if they give you the unlock code, standard firmware
 
Seems the router itself is a Alibaba special made by Shenzhen Jointelli Technologies.
No stock firmware to be found.
 
So I'm assuming rain doesn't blacklist those routers?
I wonder what the idiots that sold them originally get billed by Rain for not returning their router to Rain?
 
So I'm assuming rain doesn't blacklist those routers?
I wonder what the idiots that sold them originally get billed by Rain for not returning their router to Rain?
Nope - worked just fine for me. Other than I could not unlock it to other networks that is.

Well at least I got my money back.
 
The 101 is also Jointelli, the interface identical and it's running a Rain flavoured OpenWrt. To get around a network lock I would try and find a compatible stock OpenWrt image.
 
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