Verizon has quietly rewritten the rules that once made it relatively painless to take your phone to another carrier. A long ...

Verizon has started enforcing a 365-day lock period on phones purchased through its TracFone division, one week after the Federal Communications Commission waived a requirement that Verizon unlock ...

Verizon extends device unlock period to 365 days for prepaid customers after FCC grants waiver, trapping phones and limiting ...

Verizon began updating device unlock policies for its various prepaid brands shortly after the FCC gave it a waiver that ...

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Verizon has quietly rolled out a major change to its prepaid phone policies, reinstating a full 12-month device lock for customers using TracFone and several related brands.

Following FCC changes, Verizon has announced an updated device unlocking policy, with the carrier no longer automatically ...

Verizon has updated a major policy consumers aren't too thrilled about.

What's the SIM unlock policy for Verizon, T-Mobile or AT&T? These are each carrier's current device unlock policy as of 2026.

Verizon retroactively applied a new 60-day paid service requirement to a phone that was purchased under older FCC-mandated unlocking rules. A Kansas customer sued after Verizon refused to unlock the ...

The FCC lifted a restriction that required Verizon to automatically unlock devices after 60 days, allowing the company to keep devices locked within the network for the entirety of the user’s payment ...

I'm not sure if any telco locks their phones at all anymore these days here in Finland. I just buy my phones from my telco and pay them off in monthly installments over 3 years and the phone doesn't ...