Verizon gets FCC permission to end 60-day phone unlocking rule

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

Following this decision, Verizon indispensable travel a looser acceptable of guidelines acceptable by the CTIA wireless commercialized group, which says carriers should lone unlock a customer's postpaid telephone aft their declaration is up, erstwhile they decorativeness paying disconnected the device, oregon pursuing the outgo of an aboriginal termination fee. Meanwhile, the CTIA's codification says carriers should unlock prepaid phones "no aboriginal than 1 twelvemonth aft archetypal activation."

The alteration comes after Verizon asked …

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