SIMロック

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ロック” in Japanese Wikipedia has 28 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 62 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.11 points.

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

Since the creation of article “SIMロック”, its content was written by 32 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 932 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 376 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 719 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #1409 in August 2016
• Global: #7131 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #7715 in September 2019
• 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) SIM lock		58.5036
2	Catalan (ca) Bloqueig de SIM		28.3985
3	Japanese (ja) SIMロック		27.9669
4	German (de) SIM-Lock		22.3479
5	Dutch (nl) Simlock		20.8168
6	Spanish (es) Terminal libre		18.5202
7	Russian (ru) SIM lock		13.3917
8	Polish (pl) SIM lock		9.0964
9	Korean (ko) SIM 락		7.135
10	Italian (it) SIM lock		4.6596

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) SIM lock		4 516 861
2	German (de) SIM-Lock		2 000 662
3	Japanese (ja) SIMロック		481 412
4	Polish (pl) SIM lock		261 284
5	Russian (ru) SIM lock		241 397
6	Dutch (nl) Simlock		232 183
7	Spanish (es) Terminal libre		37 416
8	Italian (it) SIM lock		36 692
9	Korean (ko) SIM 락		22 902
10	Norwegian (no) Operatørlås		10 288

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) SIM lock		3 124
2	German (de) SIM-Lock		597
3	Japanese (ja) SIMロック		427
4	Polish (pl) SIM lock		161
5	Russian (ru) SIM lock		76
6	Spanish (es) Terminal libre		46
7	Italian (it) SIM lock		40
8	Dutch (nl) Simlock		39
9	Korean (ko) SIM 락		17
10	Vietnamese (vi) SIM lock		15

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) SIM lock		576
2	German (de) SIM-Lock		134
3	Dutch (nl) Simlock		38
4	Polish (pl) SIM lock		37
5	Russian (ru) SIM lock		34
6	Japanese (ja) SIMロック		32
7	Danish (da) Simlås		23
8	Spanish (es) Terminal libre		11
9	Italian (it) SIM lock		11
10	Norwegian (no) Operatørlås		11

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Bloqueig de SIM		1
2	Danish (da) Simlås		0
3	German (de) SIM-Lock		0
4	English (en) SIM lock		0
5	Spanish (es) Terminal libre		0
6	Italian (it) SIM lock		0
7	Japanese (ja) SIMロック		0
8	Korean (ko) SIM 락		0
9	Dutch (nl) Simlock		0
10	Norwegian (no) Operatørlås		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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