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Unlocking Cell Phones Now Illegal In The US

I'm not buying into all the notion that you have no right to unlock your phone BS. You've paid for the phone and hence should be able to use it as you see fit. They may claim your contract subsidizes it, but you have to pay a penalty to get out of your contract and go with someone else. And when your contract us up and fully paid for, you should be allowed to use that smartphone wherever you want.

Here's a video about it. I agree with these smart women (and, of course, women are always the smartest anyway).

 
I think it's about choice. I don't believe that there is a significant number of people unlocking their phones just to switch to another carrier.. enough that it makes it justified that we should all suffer. I hear T-Mobile is getting rid of subsidized phone subscriptions in 2013. What if all the other carriers follow? and this law remains.. that means the carriers can impose more damaging results on the innocent. I don't like that nor the what if's.

If this illegal issue bothers you, and you want to have the option to be able to unlock a device you believe you paid for and own, then sign this official Petition and pass it along: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cell-phones-legal/1g9KhZG7

There's still time! 12 days left to get 100,000 minimum signatures.. At present, there is 60,000 sigs.. Please pass this petition link around to help make a difference!
 
New event in this issue...

Minnesota senator plans bill to make cellphone unlocking legal again

Just one day after the White House got behind efforts to make unlocking cellphones legal again, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D — MN) vowed to introduce a bill this week that will “get rid of the ban on unlocking cell phones.” Both Klobuchar and the White House were responding directly to an online petition that urged the government to reverse a decision made by the Librarian of Congress last fall to deny consumers the right to unlock their phones and bring them to different carriers. In announcing her new legislation, Klobuchar said that “consumers should be free to choose the phone and service that best fits their needs and their budgets” and that “we need to make sure consumers are getting a fair deal and today’s announcement is a welcome step towards implementing consumer-friendly policies in the wireless industry.”​
 
danarhea said:
We may own the phone, but we do not own the infrastructure it runs on. Take away the infrastructure, and the phone does not work. Therefore, those who own the infrastructure have a right to determine the terms and conditions for those who access and use that infrastructure.
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And we own the airwaves, with the government licensing use of those airwaves as a public trust. So those who own the airwaves have a right to determine the terms and conditions for those who access and use the airwaves.
 
Unlocking phone is US is illegal. So it is better to purchase mobile phone outside either unlocked or get any network locked phone to unlock it yourself. This is what i did. I got a network locked mobile phone from UK and unlocked it myself. I unlocked my mobile phone safer and easier using unlock code. I got the accurate unlock code for my mobile phone from www.WickedUnlock.com at affordable cost with free step by step unlocking instructions.
 
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clownboy said:
Agreed. As a side issue, I don't believe it's in the public's interest to allow the phone giants to lock in exclusivity like that.
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What does the public interest have to do with it? It is in the public interest that gasoline would be free for everyone. That has nothing to do with reality either. No one forces you to buy cell phone service. It is a choice you make. You choose and you sign a contract. If you don't want to sign a contract there are options for that as well.
 
fmw said:
What does the public interest have to do with it? It is in the public interest that gasoline would be free for everyone. That has nothing to do with reality either. No one forces you to buy cell phone service. It is a choice you make. You choose and you sign a contract. If you don't want to sign a contract there are options for that as well.
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No, it is not in the public interest for gas to be free. That would remove the incentive for oil corps to find, extract and process oil for consumption
 
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