Verizon wants to lock customers on its network for a long period of time, and asked the US Federal Communications Commission [PDF] To expand how long customers should wait before unlock the Verizon smartphone and move to another carrier.
When Verizon bought a 700MHz spectrum for her network in 2008, it agreed to unlock the smartphone. After 60-day periodVerizon now wants the FCC to forgive the requirement that can change his phone to the unlocking policy.
Verizon claims that the 60-day unlocking requirement leads to fraud and smuggling of the device. Verizon said that it lost the estimated 784,703 devices for fraud in 2023, its price “Hundreds of million dollars.” From the filing of Verizon:
The unlocking rule applies only to special providers – primarily Verizon – and deforms the market in an important American industry. This rule has resulted in unexpected results that damage consumers, competition and varizon, while international criminal organizations benefit from fraud, including fraud, which also includes a device smuggling of subsidized devices from the United States. These bad actors target and harm American consumers and American carriers such as Verizon for their own benefits by removing unlocked traffic devices abroad.
Verizon suggests that consumers will benefit from exemption as it will allow the company to “offer subsidies and other mechanisms to better compete with other carriers, which enables the phone to make the phone more economical, low -upfront cost, and make customers the latest and most new devices.”
Moving forward, Verizon wants to be able to lock the phone on his network for at least six months, keeping it on the equilibrium with another American carrier. AT & T locks prepaid devices on its network for six months and need to make a complete payment before unlocking postpaid devices, while T-Mobile Lock Prepad devices takes the prepaid device to their network for 12 months, and postpaid devices also need to be paid. Verizon needs to unlock prepaid and postpaid devices after 60 days.
Under the biden, FCC was considering a proposal, in which all carriers would need to unlock the smartphone within a period of 60-day, but as Tech technica Note, the effort may be dead under the new FCC President Brendon car as his focus focuses on deregulation.
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