To unlock your phone from Verizon, the phone must be 60 days past its purchase date and not flagged as lost or stolen.

It’s called the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition act, and members of the senate judiciary committee Patrick Leahy, Al Franken, as well as Republicans Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch, and ...

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has proposed that the Commission require mobile providers to unlock customers' mobile phones 60 days after the device is activated. (Unlocking would let customers ...

Several years ago, the Federal Communications Commission issued new requirements to the major wireless carriers in the US to ensure all smartphones can be unlocked. In an effort to both increase ...

The White House gives full support to cell phone unlocking petition. March 4, 2013 — -- The White House has responded to an online petition to make cellphone unlocking legal, and that should make ...

Buying a smartphone from a subsidiary is a great way to not only get access to cheaper smartphones, but cheaper service, too. Unfortunately, this generally means that you get poorer service in some ...

Unlocking your cellphone from any carrier can be a pain in the butt. Some carriers have made unlocking easier, but others are still stuck in their ways. This leads many users to third-party solutions ...

One common issue that some users face is their new phone not accepting their SIM card, requiring an unlock code. We will cover various methods to obtain the unlock code and troubleshoot your SIM card ...

Hot on the heels of a White House statement supporting unimpeded mobile phone unlocking, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) has announced that she will introduce legislation to reverse the ban ...

The law specifies that consumers can unlock their cell phones without running afoul of copyright laws. President Obama this afternoon signed into law a bill that makes it legal for consumers to unlock ...

Unlocking allowed the phones to be removed from AT&T’s network, even if customers had not finished paying for the expensive devices or their service contracts had not expired.(Tom Fox / Staff ...

A cyber-criminal who defrauded American telecommunications giant AT&T out of more than $200m through a phone-unlocking bribery scheme has been sentenced to prison. Muhammad Fahd, a 35-year-old citizen ...