Lawmakers join effort to legalize cell phone unlocking
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Lawmakers join effort to legalize cell phone unlocking. A day after the Obama administration endorsed an online petition to legalize cell phone unlocking, a senator introduces a bill that would allow consumers to take their handsets to other carriers.
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As it stands now, mobile users cannot move between carriers while under contract. To lure customers, carriers often offer low--if not free--prices on mobile phones as part of a long-term contract. While under contract, users can not take that phone to ...
See all stories on this topic »White House Denounces Cell Phone Unlocking Ban
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Consumers found guilty of illegally unlocking mobile phones can face up to five years in prison. The online petition against the ban on the White House website received over 114,000 signatures. White House Senior Adviser for Internet, Innovation and ...
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Lawmakers join effort to legalize cell phone unlocking. A day after the Obama administration endorsed an online petition to legalize cell phone unlocking, a senator introduces a bill that would allow consumers to take their handsets to other carriers.
See all stories on this topic »White House Pushes for Cell Phone Unlocking to be Made Legal
Fox Business
As it stands now, mobile users cannot move between carriers while under contract. To lure customers, carriers often offer low--if not free--prices on mobile phones as part of a long-term contract. While under contract, users can not take that phone to ...
See all stories on this topic »White House Denounces Cell Phone Unlocking Ban
Annenberg TV News
Consumers found guilty of illegally unlocking mobile phones can face up to five years in prison. The online petition against the ban on the White House website received over 114,000 signatures. White House Senior Adviser for Internet, Innovation and ...
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| White House: “It's Time to Legalize Cell Phone Unlocking” AMERICAblog (blog) Amen. The White House published a blog post yesterday saying that it supports letting consumers unlock their cell phones so that they can use the phone with other carriers. Though the administration did throw in a large caveat: this only applies to ... See all stories on this topic » |  AMERICAblog (blog) |
| White House and FCC should leave phone unlocking alone ExtremeTech Earlier this year, it became illegal to unlock your phone without your carrier's consent. As expected, this angered many mobile phone users, and eventually resulted in a petition with 100,000 signatures on the White House petition site, We The People ... See all stories on this topic » |  ExtremeTech |
| Senator Introduces Legislation To Make Cell Phone Unlocking Legal Again Latinos Post However, the White House does not have the power to overturn the decision. Luckily, a Minnesota senator has taken up the cause, drafting legislation that would overrule the current DMCA policy, making it legal again for users to unlock their mobile phones. See all stories on this topic » |  Latinos Post |