I feel like every two years I need to call my carrier and complain if I want a decent deal. They will do things like upgrade my plan on their website to have 10 extra gigabytes of data but won’t upgrade me to it until I contact them. There’s also all the new member exclusive deals that I feel make it impractical to just sit on one plan for an extended period of time.
Every other year I will review my phone plan. I use Sim only plans because phones provided by carriers are generally awful in my opinion.
You don’t like bloatware and having to ask if they can unlock your phone for you so you can leave their business? Psshhh
Network locking isn’t a thing in any place I have lived. But I know some uncivilized north American countries do it.