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Topic: Starting Today, It´s Illegal
to Unlock Your Cellphone |
Starting Today, It´s Illegal
to Unlock Your Cellphone
ABC News, by Joanna Stern
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Posted By:StormCnter, 1/26/2013 11:40:37 AM
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| You likely have a cellphone that you bought from a carrier, like AT&T, Verizon or Sprint, and that phone only works on that carrier´s cellular and data network -- unless you "unlock" it. That is a software process that allows the phone to work on other carriers if you put in a new SIM card or want to take the phone to another carrier for service. If that sounds complicated to you and like something you wouldn´t bother with, then today´s news won´t matter to you. But if that´s something you´ve done before or have thought about doing,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
provide, 1/26/2013 12:08:03 PM (No. 9140599)
Oh yeah, that 15 year old that buys used phones on eBay and sells them to friends is afraid to "jail break" them?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
zoidberg, 1/26/2013 12:42:04 PM (No. 9140658)
Unlocking and jailbreaking are not the same thing.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
pinkpanther, 1/26/2013 12:45:46 PM (No. 9140670)
Just another unintended consequence! My 15 yr old bought an old iphone and we unlocked it so that we could put another carrier on it from AT&T. AT&T is a lot more expensive for their pay as you go plans than T-mobile (whom we now have). This just takes away consumer choice and makes the cellular market that much less competitive. Again, the average American citizen loses.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Caveman, 1/26/2013 1:16:30 PM (No. 9140732)
Exactly #2 and both should always be legal.
Where I live your choice of carrier is extremely limited, and they know it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
uno, 1/26/2013 1:29:44 PM (No. 9140755)
Just another law aimed at the easy to control, law abiding over-taxed payer. Now go try to enforce this in the Obama-phone hood!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
beancounter, 1/26/2013 1:33:49 PM (No. 9140759)
We must have one of the most monopolistic cell phone industries in the world. It´s really an embarrassment.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MissMann, 1/26/2013 2:13:55 PM (No. 9140819)
Are these phones the property of the users or not? If they are not able to use them as they would like, what compensation are they given?
On more step in shredding the Constitution´s protection against government telling how we can use our own property.
Yeah, I get the phone companies subsidize the phones so don´t want you skipping out on paying their monthly rate, but their desire should not trump MY property rights. Let them change THEIR pricing structure if they aren´t happy with liberty in America.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Grant Hodges, 1/26/2013 2:35:47 PM (No. 9140851)
Ermmm....uh..just exactly how do you unlock a cell phone?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 1/26/2013 2:42:00 PM (No. 9140860)
The phone is paid for by the subscriber. There is no subsidy. The cost of the phone is fully recovered from the user contract after a period of use.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
judy, 1/26/2013 2:42:48 PM (No. 9140861)
How many $$$$$ did Verizon, Sprint, & AT& T give to the dems...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bkt23, 1/26/2013 2:57:27 PM (No. 9140892)
...or else what? The software still exists to unlock a phone. Illegal or not, what´s stopping me from doing it?
Or do you mean carriers will be the ones who turn in individuals who bring in devices that are only supposed to run on a different carrier? They´ll turn away business? Hmmm.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Islander, 1/26/2013 3:09:52 PM (No. 9140917)
Having not owned a locked phone in over a decade I have to ask. I just buy never locked to begin -and very cheap- with European phones from Amazon, etc and slip my carrier´s SIM card in.
Only works if you use AT&T, T-Mobile or some other carrier who uses GSM signalling. Verizon uses another system, CDMA, which is incompatible.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
dman, 1/26/2013 3:21:44 PM (No. 9140934)
Lobbyists gone wild. This only facilitates a black market, and carriers who will offer unlocked phones to compete with the bigs. As fiercely competitive as the cell phone market is, the latter will be a natural result.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
KingBubo, 1/26/2013 5:20:31 PM (No. 9141089)
I am sure Verizon/Att pay some sort of fee/vice versa to Apple . Why should they be penalized.
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