Australian hackers take to the iPhone

Why prepaid? Because the people most interested in the iPhone — teenagers and 20-somethings — typically use prepaid because they “cannot afford post-paid mobile contracts.” Good for them. We figure that being in a two-year commitment at such a young age is another reason for this demographic to avoid post-paid. The process is rather simple. Australian hackers order the phones from Apple and have them delivered to a U.S. address. The people at these addresses then charge a small fee to ship the phones over to Australia. Combine this with easy-to-find unlocking sites (just look at all the Google results), and you have a bunch of small businesses in the country whose sole purpose is to unlock and distribute iPhones.

“We love the rush of taking a big company like Apple and opening up it’s technology for the masses to use” said one of the teenage kids.

Couldn’t have put it better ourselves. [NewswireToday]]]>