Verizon stoppt das automatische Entsperren von Telefonen, da die FCC die 60-Tage-Entsperrregel aufhebt
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/fcc-lets-verizon-lock-phones-for-longer-making-it-harder-to-switch-carriers/
Verizon stoppt das automatische Entsperren von Telefonen, da die FCC die 60-Tage-Entsperrregel aufhebt
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/fcc-lets-verizon-lock-phones-for-longer-making-it-harder-to-switch-carriers/
27 Kommentare
Ahh yes, let the trumpian anti-consumer practices begin. Screw Verizon anyway.
Wow, I remembered how happy customers were when they first released this.
Wow that fucking sucks! Especially if you just buy phone from Apple full price. Only buying unlocked now even though they charge extra $30 for unlocked if you are buying non Pro model.
What is the point of having something done just to turn around and change it?
You buy a phone, pay for it and it should be yours to do what you want with it. If you are still paying it off then I can understand, but not if you have paid outright.
Boy good thing we picked a child rapist and his anti-consumer Republican minions over a woman who laughed funny and wouldn’t give 2 word kindergarten answers on topics that required measured responses to.
Enshitification continues. The government and corporations are conspiring to make it so that you own nothing.
People can fight back by buying only fully unlocked phones and prepaid plans. You’ll probably save money doing so also.
Lol, who even still uses Verizon?
They literally do nothing—not a single thing—to help regular people.
Even the stuff that’s not nakedly fascist is literally never good news.
Why is every single fucking headline during the Trump era about another commonsense good idea they’re demolishing so the rich can get richer?
Every single day is a new low, because there are still thousands of laws, consumer protections, and programs meant to help people that they can destroy—and every single day, they destroy another one.
Fuck every Trump voter until the end of time, you horrible, horrible people.
This is why I buy my devices direct from apple. Screw Verizon
Wait… in the US, phones are still locked to the carrier? Here in the EU that practice stopped more than a decade ago.
Use Visible service and I buy my pixels from Google at 0% interest. You select which network, or none, when you buy it.
Don’t worry everyone it definitely better for you if you are infinitely locked into a single company. /s
Also reminder that Verizon often permanently bootloader-locks phones they sell in addition to very aggressive SIM-locking policies described here.
Totally captured agency. Zero reasons this helps consumers.
I literally bought a tracphone and three months of service the other day, it hasn’t even come in the mail yet. With plans of getting it unlocked so I can put my lifeline sim in it. I guess that money just got wasted, and I don’t just have money to waste, so that’s cool
I literally bought a tracphone and three months of service the other day, it hasn’t even come in the mail yet. With plans of getting it unlocked so I can put my lifeline sim in it. I guess that money just got wasted, and I don’t just have money to waste, so that’s cool
Keep voting red and you get shit policies like this.
Always buy a world version of the phone. Problem solved.
Another win for the citizens of the US! Soon, we’ll finally get around to helping out those renters who think it’s OK to move when their landlord is a dick.
Nooo I just bought a Verizon iPhone 1 month ago!! I was waiting for that 60 days so I could put a second eSIM in there.
Back to the old days huh.
Because Verizon’s service has gotten bad/slow/congested and they’re losing customers to T-Mobile and T-Mobile VNOs like Mint Mobile, and maybe AT&T.
Instead of Version investing their infrastructure and increasing capacity it’s cheaper to make it harder for customers to change providers and spend some extra dollars on marketing.
Is this… 2010? Locking phones, haha.
This is why you just buy it from Apple unlocked.
Whatever. If you have half a brain you’d never buy a phone from a service provider in the first place. This will effect boomer morons the most.
That still happens???
Has anyone in here even read the article? All these people bitching don’t seem to understand that the 60 day thing was a restriction that *only* applied to Verizon, and not other carriers, as a condition for allowing Verizon to buy extra spectrum. This waiver just puts all the carriers back onto a level playing field.