New FCC Chairman to Wireless Carriers: Unlock Users' Phones

FCC’s new Chairman, Tom Wheeler knows that depending on your cellular contract, it may be very easy or impossible to unlock your phone. On his first day in office, he wrote this letter to Steve Largent, CEO of CTIA, a trade group representing cellular carriers:

It is now time for the industry to act voluntarily or for the FCC to regulate. Let’s set a goal of including the full unlocking rights policy in the CTIA Consumer Code before the December holiday season.

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