The recent law that went into effect in January that states that it is illegal to unlock your phone without the carrier's permission has definitely ruffled a lot of feathers, and while most carriers ...

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AT&T has promised to continue to unlock customers' handsets despite a revision to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that went into effect back in January to ban ...

Starting Sunday, AT&T, once the exclusive provider of Apple’s iPhone in the U.S., will unlock select iPhones to allow the devices to be used with other carriers. Beginning April 8, qualifying ...

When you buy a smartphone, it’s usually programmed to work with one specific carrier. But that doesn’t mean you can’t make a switch. Often, you can unlock your phone after putting in a request with ...

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 ...

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Ask (enough times) and ye shall receive. AT&T has kept the iPhone under lock and key since day one, but we’re hearing that a pretty dramatic policy shift will go into effect starting this Sunday. Once ...

The day has come for the iPhone to break free from the blue, spherical shackles that bind it to AT&T. It appears as if a full software-enabled unlock has finally been done by a group that now operates ...