T-Mobile and AT&T this week responded to the FCC’s proposed rule requiring providers unlock phones within 60 days of activation—even if they’re under contract and not paid off yet.

The rule, proposed in July, would require carriers to unlock phones within 60 ... FCC is concerned about carrier-locked phones, which are often offered "free" with contracts that lock customers ...

When the FCC proposed the 60-day unlocking rule in July 2024, the agency criticized T-Mobile for locking prepaid phones for a year. The NPRM pointed out that "T-Mobile recently increased its locking ...

Requiring carriers to unlock phones before they're paid off ... such policies allow it to provide mobile broadband on phones that are free or heavily discounted. Further, its existing policies ...

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The proposal would require carriers to unlock phones with 60 days of activation ... that consumers risk losing access to the benefits of free or heavily subsidized handsets because the proposal ...

T-Mobile has expressed strong reservations about the FCC's proposed rule that would require carriers to unlock users' phones within 60 ... in the elimination of free handset schemes by carriers ...