Android Q will include more ways for carriers to SIM lock your phone

Hopefully this means support for a better unlocking mechanism, too.

When I wanted to unlock my iPhone, I was able to go to my carrier's website, pay a small fee and have it be unlocked over-the-air. I wanted to do a similar thing to a Galaxy S6 Edge that I got from them before selling it and I was notified by their site that I will have to physically take it to a store to have it unlocked there. I did that and all they did was come up with loads of surcharges and BS hoops to jump through -- essentially saying that getting that phone unlocked would cost me like 6-8x as much as the iPhone for made-up reasons.

Everyone should know that these restrictions are applied on the first boot with an internet connection, and after application aren't easy to remove even if you root the phone and install a different rom.

The simple solution is never let the phone contact the internet or the phone network with the default ROM.

Is it possible that a rouge app can takeover and add a sim-lock, which can be bypassed?