Verizon imposes new roadblock on users trying to unlock paid-off phones
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by iancarroll
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Verizon did manage to convince the FCC that this was enough a problem to change their settlement agreement[0] requiring more frequent unlocks. If you believe their numbers, they lost 700,000 phones to fraud in 2023, although a lot of those were probably any unlocked phone that defaulted on its payments.
Why not just buy a phone outright. I never buy contract phones. They're not free, you're just paying for them through what is really just a loan.
by arduanika
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Careful before trusting that any of the quotes in an Ars Technica article are real! Default assumption should be that it's all hallucinated unless you've checked it personally. They don't check it in-house.
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