Verizon Gets Fcc Permission To End 60-day Phone Unlocking Rule

Verizon tin support phones locked to its web for longer aft nan Federal Communications Commission agreed to waive nan carrier's 60-day unlocking requirement, arsenic reported by Ars Technica.

Following this decision, Verizon must travel a looser group of guidelines group by nan CTIA wireless waste and acquisition group, which says carriers should only unlock a customer's postpaid telephone aft their statement is up, erstwhile they decorativeness paying disconnected nan device, aliases pursuing nan costs of an early termination fee. Meanwhile, nan CTIA's codification says carriers should unlock prepaid phones "no later than 1 twelvemonth aft first activation."

The alteration comes after Verizon asked …

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