Last week, some folks had figured out a way to enable LTE on an unlocked iPhone 5, which involved installing a jailbreak tweak and loading a custom carrier bundle.
We’ve have some great news for users who are using unlocked iPhone on T-Mobile’s network and are not into hacking.
Bloomberg reports that the bill introduced by Senators last week to make cell phone unlocking legal again may get support from small regional carriers.
These carriers hope that by allowing users to unlock their cell phones without carrier permission, will allow them to attract customers after they finish their contract with larger carriers like AT&T, Sprint etc.
Here’s some good news on the unlocking front if you’re in the U.S.
Hot on the heels of the response by the White House to the “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal” petition, Democratic senators Amy Klobuchar and Richard Blumenthal, along with Utah Republican Mike Lee have introduced a bill that would make unlocking cell phones legal again.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will be investigating if the recent ban on unlocking mobile phones to economic competitiveness, FCC Commissioner Julius Genachowski said in a recent interview with TechCrunch.
You probably know by now that unlocking a cell phone is illegal in the U.S. as it would be a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
You probably know by now that unlocking a cell phone is illegal in the U.S. as it would be a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Many consumers disagreed with this and started a White House petition, which appealed to the U.S. President to ask the Librarian of Congress, who originally deemed unlocking illegal in October last year, to reconsider the decision given the legitimate reasons a customer might want to unlock his or her carrier locked phone.
If you depend on Ultrasn0w, the software based solution to unlock your iPhone then we have some news.
Yesterday, MuscleNerd of the evad3rs dev team revealed that he had released a new version of Ultrasn0w for iOS 6.1 along with the launch of the evasi0n jailbreak on Monday.
As you might know, unlocking your iPhone through any means other than your carrier or manufacturer became illegal starting this week under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DMCA prevents unauthorised modification of software, and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been responsible for winning exceptions for jailbreaking and unlocking since the past few years.
While we knew that as of last Saturday, January 26th, it is illegal to unlock your iPhone to use it on another carrier’s network in the U.S., we really didn’t know what this meant for someone who is found guilty of unlocking their phone.
We’ve just found out the penalties for unlocking a subsidized phone without carriers consent can be severe.
