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Tools like iJailbreak and TurboSIM have made it very easy to unlock your iPhone and enable you to use it in countries that Apple doesn’t supported. Confirmation has been made that 800,000 to 1 million iPhones, or about one-fourth of all iPhones old have been unlocked in countries outside of Apple’s carrier countries. Even though Apple restricts the number of iPhones a single person may buy, people have found ways around this rule. BusinessWeek recently reported:

“one reseller “got a friend to print business cards and pose as a small business owner so as to dupe an Apple Store manager into letting him buy 100 iPhones.”

The iPhone Dev team always works hard to unlock the latest firmware, but Apple keeps breaking the hacks and the iPhone team fights back. Apple is also losing money on every unlocked iPhone, as they earn a portion of the revenue for each iPhone on AT&T network. If Apple does not put an end to this unlocking, reaching the goal of 10 million iPhone customers by the end of 2008 will be reasonably harder.

Via [MacNN]