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

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 ...

Wireless providers would have to unlock all cellphones within 60 days of activation under a proposal unveiled Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission. The new rule would allow mobile phone ...

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 ...

T-Mobile is reportedly no longer allowing customers to take a locked phone to an MVNO using T-Mobile's network. This may be closing an unintentional loophole. Users say that they are now required to ...

Verizon tells the FCC that a 60-day unlocking requirement it agreed to as part of a merger and spectrum acquisition is outdated and hasn't helped it prevent device fraud. Verizon has made a move to ...

The FCC chair wants the commission to adopt 'nationwide mobile phone unlocking rules.' When he's not battling bugs and robots in Helldivers 2, Michael is reporting on AI, satellites, cybersecurity, ...

Mark has almost a decade of experience reporting on mobile technology, working previously with Digital Trends. Taking a less-than-direct route to technology writing, Mark began his Android journey ...