If you buy an iPhone from a carrier with an active plan, you don’t really own the iPhone. The carrier partially owns the iPhone. This means the iPhone on your hand is locked to the carrier or a locked ...

TracFone, a major provider of prepaid mobile phone service, must keep its promise to let customers unlock their devices and transfer service to competing carriers, the U.S. Federal Communications ...

TracFone has reached an agreement with the FCC concerning its policies for unlocking handsets. In February of this year it became mandatory for all carriers to unlock customer handsets and to properly ...

Nearly nine months after regulators approved a rule allowing Americans to unlock their cell phones and move them to other carriers, the nation's largest independent prepaid-wireless provider is ...

TracFone: Cell Phone Unlocking Supports Terrorism Pre-paid cell phone company TracFone is arguing in court that allowing people to unlock their cell phones and use them with competing carriers will ...

Update 2/19/2015: T-Mobile has defended its cellphone unlocking policies, saying in a statement to Network World that its policies are “in 100% compliance with the CTIA requirements.” In separate ...

Mass unlocking and reselling of prepaid phones has been a pretty hot topic as of late, with AT&T taking its high-power legal team out of its holster recently and TracFone famously pursuing unlockers ...

TracFone, a major provider of prepaid mobile phone service, must keep its promise to let customers unlock their devices and transfer service to competing carriers, the U.S. Federal Communications ...