The US House of Representatives passed a bill that makes cell phone unlocking legal on Tuesday, in response to a White House petition from a year ago.
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Sites Offering New Permanent IMEI Unlock Service For AT&T iPhone

While the software unlock scene hasn’t been active since quite some time, there might be some good news for folks who are stuck with on an iPhone baseband that isn’t unlockable.
A number of sites have started selling a permanent iPhone unlock solution that doesn’t need users to jailbreak their iPhone and simply requires the device’s serial number and the IMEI code.
Has AT&T Unlocked Your Off-Contract iPhone Yet? [Updated]
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It’s April 8th, and according to AT&T’s statement issued a couple of days back, the carrier plans to unlock users with off-contract AT&T iPhones starting today.
Gevey Ultra S Can Unlock iPhone 4S Running iOS 5.0.1 / iOS 5 Without Dialing 112

Back in December 2011, iPhone Dev Team had revealed that they were working on a promising unlocking solution for iPhone 4S.
But it has been almost a month since the jailbreak dream team has released Absinthe Jailbreak and Redsn0w CLI tool to jailbreak iPhone 4S and there has been no further updates about the software solution to unlock iPhone 4S.
Untethered iOS 5.0.1 Jailbreak For iPhone 4S And iPad 2 Progress Report

Few days back, pod2G revealed that the jailbreak “Dream Team” had managed to successfully break the sandbox that had prevented pod2g from releasing the untethered jailbreak publicly.