In the UK, most highstreets have a store somewhere offering "Phone Unblocking" (telling the phone it's allowed to talk to any network), and many do "Phone Unlocking" (telling the phone to ignore the fact that you've made the wrong guess on your PIN too many times.
Taken together of course they allow anyone to reidentify a stolen handset...
Costs about £5
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