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SIM-Lock

Quality:

SIM lock - technical restriction built into mobile phones by phone manufacturers for use by service providers to restrict the use of these phones to specific countries and/or networks. Article “SIM-Lock” in German Wikipedia has 22.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.18 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Since the creation of article “SIM-Lock”, its content was written by 134 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 932 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 23 times in German Wikipedia and cited 719 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #2588 in November 2015
  • Global: #7131 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #2362 in December 2009
  • Global: #13455 in March 2013

There are 14 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
SIM lock
58.5036
2Catalan (ca)
Bloqueig de SIM
28.3985
3Japanese (ja)
SIMロック
27.9669
4German (de)
SIM-Lock
22.3479
5Dutch (nl)
Simlock
20.8168
6Spanish (es)
Terminal libre
18.5202
7Russian (ru)
SIM lock
13.3917
8Polish (pl)
SIM lock
9.0964
9Korean (ko)
SIM 락
7.135
10Italian (it)
SIM lock
4.6596
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "SIM-Lock" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
SIM lock
4 516 861
2German (de)
SIM-Lock
2 000 662
3Japanese (ja)
SIMロック
481 412
4Polish (pl)
SIM lock
261 284
5Russian (ru)
SIM lock
241 397
6Dutch (nl)
Simlock
232 183
7Spanish (es)
Terminal libre
37 416
8Italian (it)
SIM lock
36 692
9Korean (ko)
SIM 락
22 902
10Norwegian (no)
Operatørlås
10 288
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "SIM-Lock" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
SIM lock
3 124
2German (de)
SIM-Lock
597
3Japanese (ja)
SIMロック
427
4Polish (pl)
SIM lock
161
5Russian (ru)
SIM lock
76
6Spanish (es)
Terminal libre
46
7Italian (it)
SIM lock
40
8Dutch (nl)
Simlock
39
9Korean (ko)
SIM 락
17
10Vietnamese (vi)
SIM lock
15
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "SIM-Lock" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
SIM lock
576
2German (de)
SIM-Lock
134
3Dutch (nl)
Simlock
38
4Polish (pl)
SIM lock
37
5Russian (ru)
SIM lock
34
6Japanese (ja)
SIMロック
32
7Danish (da)
Simlås
23
8Spanish (es)
Terminal libre
11
9Italian (it)
SIM lock
11
10Norwegian (no)
Operatørlås
11
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "SIM-Lock" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Catalan (ca)
Bloqueig de SIM
1
2Danish (da)
Simlås
0
3German (de)
SIM-Lock
0
4English (en)
SIM lock
0
5Spanish (es)
Terminal libre
0
6Italian (it)
SIM lock
0
7Japanese (ja)
SIMロック
0
8Korean (ko)
SIM 락
0
9Dutch (nl)
Simlock
0
10Norwegian (no)
Operatørlås
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "SIM-Lock" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Japanese (ja)
SIMロック
376
2English (en)
SIM lock
226
3Korean (ko)
SIM 락
49
4German (de)
SIM-Lock
23
5Russian (ru)
SIM lock
11
6Polish (pl)
SIM lock
10
7Italian (it)
SIM lock
9
8Dutch (nl)
Simlock
8
9Spanish (es)
Terminal libre
4
10Norwegian (no)
Operatørlås
2
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Scores

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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
caCatalan
Bloqueig de SIM
daDanish
Simlås
deGerman
SIM-Lock
enEnglish
SIM lock
esSpanish
Terminal libre
itItalian
SIM lock
jaJapanese
SIMロック
koKorean
SIM 락
nlDutch
Simlock
noNorwegian
Operatørlås
plPolish
SIM lock
ruRussian
SIM lock
svSwedish
Operatörslås
viVietnamese
SIM lock

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#2362
12.2009
Global:
#13455
03.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#2588
11.2015
Global:
#7131
04.2003

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on SIM lock from Wikipedia articles about Turbo SIM, ESIM, Rooting, SIM card and George Hotz. Whereas reading the article about SIM lock people most often go to Wikipedia articles on SIM card, Subsidy Password, Global System for Mobile Communications, International Mobile Equipment Identity and Mobile phone.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

News from 1 July 2026

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