If you're an AT&T customer, you can unlock your phone using a portal on the AT&T website. To unlock an AT&T phone, make sure you've paid for the device in full, and don't have any unpaid bills. Active ...

In one of the industry's first effort to allay customer concerns since regulations went into effect six weeks ago that make it illegal to unlock your cellphone, AT&T is telling you to relax, they'll ...

Verizon this week imposed a new roadblock for people who want to pay off device installment plans early in order to get their phones unlocked. The latest version of Verizon’s device unlocking policy ...

Americans rose up to do something about one of the country’s most disliked copyright laws—but only when their smartphones were in danger. If you purchased your smartphone after January 2013, it’s ...

Consumers will soon find it easier to “unlock” their cell phones and use them across different wireless carriers, a federal regulator said Thursday. The Federal Communication Commission said it had ...

Customers buying a phone via a carrier on a postpaid plan will have to completely pay it off before unlocking. Unfortunately for Verizon subscribers, the carrier is now making it even harder to unlock ...

The Federal Communications Commission is letting Verizon lock phones to its network for longer periods, eliminating a requirement to unlock handsets 60 days after they are activated on its network.

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Like a lot of people, Jose Correa was fed up with his cell- phone service but knew it would be expensive to cancel his two-year contract before it expired. Then his sister told ...