Re:White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal”
by morpher on Monday March 04, 2013 @07:17PM
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You can be a current customer with outside of the (typically two year) contract period. Currently AT&T (and possibly other carriers?) will unlock the phone for you in this situation. But, it wouldn't be terrible to have this specifically allowed/required.
"Consumers will be forced to pay exorbitant roaming fees to make calls while traveling abroad."
If their response only applies to situations where you've let your service contract expire, it doesn't seem to allow you to unlock your phone for use on multiple carriers while under contract with the carrier from which the phone was purchased. Could you clarify whether you're satisfied that their approach would avoid criminal liability in such a situation?