Verizon wants to lock phones like AT&T and T-MOBINE

Verizon wants to lock the Subk Subkbers in its network for a long time and asked the US Federal Commission (PDF) to expand how long customers have to wait for the Verizon smartphone to be unlocked and transferred to another carrier.

At a time when Verizon bought a spectrum of 700 MHz in 2008 for his network, she agreed to unlock smartphones after 60 days. Verizon now wants the FCC to submit this request, allowing him to change the policy of unlocking the phone.

Verizon claims that 60 -day unlocking requires that this is subject to management to trade fraud and devices. Verizon said he lost an estimated 784 703 fraud devices in 2023, which cost “hundreds of millions of dollars”. From Verizona’s submission:

Unlocking the rule was only related to specific providers – mainly Verizon – and disrupts the market in the critical American industry. This rule resulted in unintended items that harm consumers, competition and Verizon, while supporting an international criminal organization that benefits from fraud, involving trading in subsidized facilities from the United States. These bad actors focus and harm US consumers and American carriers, such as Verizon for their own profit, by diverting unlocked traded equipment to consumers in foreign countries.

Verizon suggests that consumers will benefit from surrender because it will allow companies to better prepare with other carriers “offer subsidies and other mechanisms to make the phones more accessible, lower initial costs and allow customers to get the latest and most innovative devices”.

In the future, Verizon wants to be able to lock the phones in his net for at least six months and put them on with other American carriers. The AT&T locks the prepaid devices to its network for six months and requires the delayed devices to be paid in full before unlocking, while T-Mobile locks the prepaid devices to its network for 12 months and also requires the device to be paid in full. After 60 days, Verizon is obliged to unlock a prepaid and flat -rate equipment.

Within Biden FCC considered a proposal that would require all carriers to unlock smartphones within 60 days but as Ars technica He notes that efforts could be dead under the new chairman of FCC Brendan Carr to focus on deregulation.