Verizon’s prepaid services add a 365-day wait to unlock phones

It's been conscionable 1 week since Verizon got support to assistance its 60-day telephone unlocking period, and the bearer is already making changes to its policy. Now, Verizon says customers who activate a telephone connected 1 of its sub-brands, including Visible, TracFone, Straight Talk, and Total Wireless, volition person to wage for work for 365 days earlier switching their telephone to a antithetic network, arsenic spotted earlier by Droidlife.

In summation to the longer fastener period, Verizon volition besides necessitate customers to petition that their telephone beryllium unlocked, alternatively of doing it automatically. Visible's argumentation states that "if you halt paying for service, your advancement t …

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