Unauthorized unlocking of smartphones becomes illegal

For the USA it looks like the smartphone you thought you owned can still get you in trouble if you tamper with it because your carrier says so.

I think every phone should have an option to be sold unlocked and let the carriers battle it out between themselves rather than paying the most to a particular vendor to secure handset

The feds mandate fidelity between carriers and users: New rule under DMCA outlaws unlocking new handsets without carrier permission.

news.cnet.com...

Just hope this is not gonna make its way over to the UK.

Something tells me that att&t push this #.

I paid for, I will unlock it and destroy it.

Soon there will be a law requiring users to give back their phones if they no longer contract with the carrier.

I always use pay and go phones. No one will tell me if I can't unlock my phone if I want to. Mine are always unlocked before I buy them anyway, same as my iPad as well....

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