Carrier unlocking policies: Unlocking phones may be legal, but carriers still have their guidelines

While one could argue that the passage of the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act was an important milestone in mobile device market, the reality has not really changed. Even when the act of unlocking a phone became illegal, it was not proactively enforced, and it was possible to get phones unlocked anyway.



For the wireless carriers, it remained within their purview to unlock mobile devices, and with the new law on the books, that remains the case today.



For those of us that follow the official guidelines, the passage of the new “unlocking” law is pretty much meaningless. ...



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