Regardless of party America is police state

I suppose I can understand the logic, as Hook said if the phone was free or at a reduced cost as part of a plan that a particular carrier sold you then I guess I feel they should have a right to prevent you from using it with some other carrier - providing they were supplying you with stellar, trouble free service that was actually worth the money they charge.

 

That said, I have Verizon wireless for internet, the service absolutely sucks and is deteriorating by the day. I've complained a thousand times, nobody cares and nobody's interested in doing anything about it. According to the coverage map on their own site I am clearly within the 3G coverage area and only a mile or so out of the 4G coverage area. I pay for 4G every month because they don't have a 3G alternative for a reduced price. I've seen 4G service exactly twice since I've been a customer, for a period of time amounting to around 4 hrs. I'm locked into a contract and if I want out I have to pay a fee, so basically Verizon feels they can lock you into a contract then turn off the cell tower and expect you to continue paying your bill every month. Further, I damaged my hotspot at one point and had to pay $380 for a refurbished unit while they were available to new customers for $19.99. So: - I've been a victim of their lousy service, exorbitant prices, and their junior high bandwidth restrictions (i.e. it costs me more to download an ORBX region than ORBX charges for the software itself). I've been paying their padded bill every month for well over a year; they can sell a hotspot to a potential new customer for $20 bucks which gives you a pretty good idea what they buy them from Samsung for, yet they ding me some over inflated price for this POS that rarely works in the first place.

 

With that business model in mind I would unlock my phone/device in a heartbeat, law or no law, if there was a better service available and Verizon could go pi$$ up a rope.

I agree with lots of people here.

 

When I buy a phone, it's my phone. I can do whatever I want to it. I can break it, unlock it, sell it, whatever. It's MINE. You can't rule what I do with my phone, DMCA. Sorry, but if I was a person who traveled a lot, I'd most definitely unlock my AT&T phone. They can't do anything to me.

In the end I think the anti-circumvention law is a joke. I know corporate types think it was really important protection, but in the end of the day it has no effect on so-called "piracy".

 

scott s.

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Coming soon, a law to restrict how much water you consume and air you breath.

 

Sent from my Jailbroken and unlocked iPhone

 

They do here even in Minnesota with 10,000 lakes lolololol

 

History repeating itself railroads and banks screwed the farmers and ranchers all over again. Now the cellphone carriers, mobile device companies, banks of course again.