If you’ve acquired your iPhone through a contractual agreement with a mobile carrier, there’s a likelihood that the device is locked to that specific service provider. In order to switch to a ...

To unlock your iPhone from its carrier, you'll likely need to contact your carrier directly to cancel your contract.

If you buy your iPhone from a carrier, or elsewhere on a subsidised contract, then it may be ‘locked’ to that carrier – meaning it won’t work if you try to switch to a physical or e-SIM from another ...

The FCC wants to make it significantly easier for consumers to unlock their phones from their carriers, proposing that all devices must be unlockable just 60 days after purchase. How this will mesh ...

Tech activists and consumers can claim victory in the fight over unlocking cell phones, as the FCC and top wireless companies reached an agreement in the long war to make the practice legal again. The ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever bought a second-hand iPhone or switched to a new carrier, you may have faced the frustration of a locked device. Carrier-locked iPhones prevent you from using SIM cards from other ...

To unlock your phone from Verizon, the phone must be 60 days past its purchase date and not flagged as lost or stolen.

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, ...