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 ...

Learn how to perform an IMEI unlock check to find out whether your phone can be legally unlocked, what factors matter, and ...

The House Judiciary Committee recently took up a bill that would make clear that consumers have the right to unlock their cell phones. Today, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) proposed to amend the bill by ...

Apologies in advance for the rant, but AT&T’s response to the controversy over cell phone unlocking really gets under my skin. You may have noticed an uproar recently over the Librarian of Congress’ ...

July 18 (UPI) --The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday proposed a rule requiring all mobile carriers to unlock customers' phones within 60 days of activation. The agency in a statement said ...

Americans rose up to do something about one of the country’s most disliked copyright laws—but only when their smartphones were in danger. If you purchased your smartphone after January 2013, it’s ...

Tech activists and consumers can claim victory in the fight over unlocking cell phones, as the FCC and top wireless companies reached an agreement in the long war to make the practice legal again. The ...

A coalition of law-enforcement agencies said it shut down a service that facilitated the unlocking of more than 1.2 million stolen or lost mobile phones so they could be used by someone other than ...

Unlocking a mobile phone from a single U.S. carrier has caused consumers headaches in recent years, but seven major carriers on Wednesday met a voluntary, industry-created deadline to set conditions ...

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 04: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at an event announcing the nominations of Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the President of the Walmart Foundation, as his budget chief, Gina ...

U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration has sided with more than 100,000 petition signers who asked the government to legalize the unlocking of smartphones. The White House on Monday agreed with ...

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