Welcome step by FCC-Federal Communications Commission for opening up discussion for mobile phone unlocking. Customers have had to deal with inconsistent and unclear cell phone unlocking policies for far too long. Some customers may unlock their phones quite easily, while others encounter substantial obstacles due to the lack of consistency among providers. It also implies that while some carriers are free to set their own restrictions, others are subject to obligatory unlocking rules. The competitors and customers suffer from this disparity. Many telecom growth markets are growing without handset locking and even UK Ofcom implemented policies to stop sales of locked handset. Objective of this FCC rule making is to empower customers and leveling the playing field for competition by recommending a standard 60-day unlocking policy. Customers can select the carrier that provides the greatest deal for them when using an unlocked phone. However, a uniform unlocking strategy benefits more than simply customers. Carriers should be rewarded for providing the most cutting-edge, reasonably priced goods and services. https://lnkd.in/gAN9BMVS
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Verizon supports the FCC's efforts to apply a new unlocking policy equally to all wireless carriers. This will enable all consumers to make the best choices for themselves for their wireless service. Today, every carrier has a different approach and some (like Verizon) are subject to very different regulatory requirements. An industry-wide approach should be simple and fair. It needs to promote consumer choice, increase competition, curb handset fraud, and encourage providers to offer subsidies on phones that promote affordability and benefit lower-income consumers.
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Michelle Rowland MP After hearing from my Telco (Kogan) that my kids fully 4G capable mobile phones are set to be blocked entirely from the Australian mobile network because "they cannot make 000 calls", I cannot help but wonder after reading the ABC news story. What is more dangerous? Having 1 million phones that cannot call 000 due to "the way they are configured", or doing what the government has chosen, disabling a million phones entirely so those people cannot reach anyone for help at all, have to throw them in landfill, and gift telcos a fat load of new phone sales in a month where they have curiously all chosen to increase plan prices by 30%. https://lnkd.in/g2iSuZ2m
More than a million older mobile phones at risk of being blocked from making triple-0 calls
abc.net.au
