We recently told you about CutYourSIM, a company offering permanent iPhone unlocks without having to jailbreak your iPhone. We raised our concern about how the unlocks were being performed and now, unsurprisingly, the company has shut down it’s service. The unlocking service was priced at $169.99 and it promised to make your iPhone work with any SIM card, permanently. Although it doesn’t happen often in the States, when Apple or AT&T does carrier unlock an iPhone, they do so by entering that iPhone’s IMEI number into a “whitelist” database that allows that phone from then on to work on any compatible network. CutYourSim’s contact clearly had access to that database, making that contact either an official Apple employee or, more likely, someone with access to that database in one of the United Kingdom’s five official iPhone carriers: O2, Vodafone, 3 Network, Tesco Mobile and Orange. In an interview with CultOfMac, the company claims to not know why the service no longer works, but that they will be refunding customer who will not be able to receive the unlocking service after all. CutYourSIM even goes on to say they never knew how the unlock worked in the first place! “Unfortunately, we were not able to complete the rest of the unlocks waiting in our queue due to our suppliers being unable to offer the service anymore,” CutYourSim told Cult of Mac. “Our suppliers have told us that there is a possibility that the service may return, but they do not know when, so we have decided to start processing refunds for any orders that we were not able to complete.” “To tell you the truth, first our supplier told us there were server issues, then after that they just told us that they will not be offering the service anymore. We are not sure where the service comes from, or whether it’s a contact through AT&T or Apple. We do know that the service is performed in the UK, but that’s about it.” Folks at CutYourSIM also confirmed that for customers waiting for their carrier unlock, they may very well be out of luck. “For all I know, the service may come back online in a few days, but at this point when we ask our supplier about it, they say they do not know when it will come back… if it ever does,”. CutYourSim has already issued full refunds to users who paid through PayPal but did not receive an unlock. The situation has become more complicated for users who purchased an unlock through Google Checkout, as CutYourSim’s merchant account was closed due to “multiple recent refunds.” CutYourSim believes that Google will begin to issue refunds for any order not marked as “Delivered/Completed” shortly, but the exact timetable is unknown. Stay tuned for more news and info on the topic by following us on Facebook, Twitter, and/or subscribing to our RSS feed. Authors:

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