If you're an AT&T customer, you can unlock your phone using a portal on the AT&T website. You'll need to have paid all of ...

When you unlock a phone, it means that you alone own the device and can use it with any cell phone carrier.

In one of the industry's first effort to allay customer concerns since regulations went into effect six weeks ago that make it illegal to unlock your cellphone, AT&T is telling you to relax, they'll ...

The FCC wants to require all mobile carriers to unlock mobile phones within 60 days of activation. But neither AT&T nor T-Mobile are on board with that idea. In June, FCC Chairwoman Jessica ...

It feels like the issue should have been resolved by now, but alas, seventeen years after the launch of the original iPhone and we’re still arguing about carrier device locking. T-Mobile and AT&T this ...

Consumers will soon find it easier to “unlock” their cell phones and use them across different wireless carriers, a federal regulator said Thursday. The Federal Communication Commission said it had ...

Both carriers claim that requiring them to unlock customers’ mobile phones within 60 days of activation will mean fewer deals on subsidized phones. T-Mobile and AT&T are pushing back on an FCC plan to ...

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Many people don’t realize if they buy their phone from their phone company, it will be locked to prevent it from working on the networks of any other carrier. (Jim Rossman/TNS)(Jim Rossman / TNS) If ...

Makes sense to me... I mean, if you get that brand new $1k iPhone for $0-out-of-pocket then 2-months later bail to carrier "x" who covers that loss? I don't want to, and if phones are locked there's ...