Unlocking Your Cell Phone Is Now Illegal, but Not for Long

It isn’t all-too-often you can get congress to agree on something, particularly something that’s beneficial to consumers and potentially detrimental to large corporations. So when a ripe opportunity to do that comes along, they should probably jump at it. It appears we have just that as Congressional action is the only recourse against a Librarian of Congress ruling that unlocking your cell phone to take it to another carrier for service is now illegal. Joining me to explain what happened already and what he expects to happen is See more +

It isn’t all-too-often you can get congress to agree on something, particularly something that’s beneficial to consumers and potentially detrimental to large corporations. So when a ripe opportunity to do that comes along, they should probably jump at it. It appears we have just that as Congressional action is the only recourse against a Librarian of Congress ruling that unlocking your cell phone to take it to another carrier for service is now illegal. Joining me to explain what happened already and what he expects to happen is Mitchell Lazarus of Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth and their CommLawBlog. See less -