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 ...

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.

T-Mobile's policy says the carrier will only unlock mobile devices on prepaid plans if "at least 365 days … have passed since the device was activated on the T-Mobile network." "You bought your ...

T-Mobile allows the unlocking of paid-off phones after 365 days for prepaid users and 40 days for postpaid customers, while AT&T enables unlocking for mobile devices after six months for prepaid ...

here’s how to unlock Verizon and T-Mobile devices. If you’ve taken the steps to ensure that your AT&T phone is ready to be unlocked, you’ve already done the hard part. Now it’s time to ...

Others, like T-Mobile, won’t let you unlock your phone until you’ve stayed on their network for a certain number of days, even if the device is paid off. Earlier this year, the FCC proposed ...

Network carriers T-Mobile and AT&T released their response to the rule this week. The proposal would require carriers to ...

But neither AT&T nor T-Mobile are on board with that idea ... ensure that providers have at least 180 days to detect fraud before unlocking a device, and include at least a 24-month period ...

T-Mobile will currently unlock phones on postpaid plans after ... Verizon already unlocks all devices after 60 days, but that's largely due to the requirements associated with the spectrum it ...