Yes, I doubt that Rim would supply unlocked ones, yet you can buy them without a contract which is what I did. Basically what happened to me:
1) Bought from Rogers without a contract.
2)Didn't like Rogers contract so I went to Bell (was unlocked from Rogers and working with Bell) I have just cancelled the Bell contract and will wait to see if I can now connect with MTS.
3)When I approached MTS initially, I was told by the MTS store that they did not offer LTE contracts for Playbooks because they did not sell the Playbook. After getting myself into frenzy calling the higher ups at MTS I finally got them to say they do support the Playbook (go figure) and that they would call the store to clarify it.
3)Next step I will do one of two things, sell the LTE Playbook or go through the motions of connecting with MTS. At this point I have had enough excitement in my life and since I have 4 more Wi-Fi Playbooks (Yeh, I know call me strange but I wanted the collection LOL), and a BB phone to bridge with I will be in no panic. It seems that BB could just have allowed the update with them (like the WI-FI ones)instead of all this hassle. I know there are other people out there with the same hassles as I did a search and other sites have people with these same questions. Could be BB is not listening.
