Another example of too much power in hands of unelected bureaucrats.
Can someone explain this to me? Surely, they don’t mean just turning it on....Sorry, I’m old and this new fangled day technology is confusing to me...
Ping
From the end of the article:
Hays says that when LTE phones become more common, the issue of unlocking becomes even more important. Today, when you unlock an AT&T (GSM) phone, your only real option is to go to T-Mobile, which uses the same cellular technology. But when all carriers have converted over to the new LTE networks, the owner of an unlocked LTE phone has a choice of four major carriers and a number of regional ones.
Hays says the carriers may have worked hard to get an unlocking ban to protect themselves against widespread unlocking and massive “churn” in the (LTE) future.
Doesn’t really effect me. I absolutely refuse to do business with Verizon (long story), AT&T has horrific customer ratings. Sprint is about the only reliable signal I can get here in the hills of MA and they’ve treated me right. Plus unlimited everything on my Galaxy S3.
BS. I was in the Philippines in October and went to the market areas and they had multiple tables where they can unlock your Iphone, Droid and Samsung phones as I piggybacked on the local carrier. It was around $5 equivalent and the same to put it all back together.
These guys were pros. Once I got back stateside, I went to Verizon for separate app issue, these clowns had no clue it was unlocked in the first place.
I’ll take my chances, I need the practice on ignoring federal law for when the new gun laws go into effect....
I only purchase unsubsized unlocked phones. My lastest two are a Galaxy Nexus direct from Google and a Sony Xperia P for work.
Folks, you are much better off financially paying $299/$349 to Google for an unlocked phone like a Nexus 4 and then signing up for Straight Talk ($45 per month unlimited talk/text & 2 GB data) or some other prepaid plan. The wife and I did just that two year ago and we’ve saved thousands....certainly more than enough to justify the upfront purchase of the phone.
The phone company has the right to sell locked or unlocked phones, and to charge more or less for each as it wishes. The government has no right to tell a company how it must do business.
(The government has taken the right; but that doesn’t mean that it has the right.)
Talking about the LTE Network, I wonder if this is another proprietary network like CDMA that is not hardly used worldwide. I know GSM is the standard elsewhere. I picked up an unlocked iPhone for the reason to use when I travel overseas.
No, you can just pay the regular price for that phone and be done with it. Talk about getting things bass-ackwards!
If you think you can get that $500 phone for $0.99 with no strings attached...well, think again.
Sounds like the guy in charge of ritual at Gormenghast castle in Mervyn Peake's classic fantasy...IIRC an ambitious young man put himself in virtual charge of the castle by taking that job over and using it to his own ends. Makes you wonder.....Not that this affects me - I neither have nor want a smart phone - but it is yet another freedom gone to socialism.