In an FCC filing, Dish agrees with Verizon that phone unlocking rules have created a landscape that “harms competition and ...

Verizon recently requested that the FCC change its 60 day unlock policy. Now several companies have weighed in, including ...

But on the flip side, it's not right for your phone, which you have bought, to be forever stuck on a single carrier. Verizon ...

This is an industry problem which becomes a Verizon problem because our phones have been unlocked all the time. Armed robberies were up more than 200 percent in the last year over the year prior.

With Verizon seeking permission to lock phones to its network for six months or longer instead of the current 60 days, a ...

Verizon shared plans back in February for a future change that involved SIM locking of their phones.The news made headlines because for one, Verizon doesn’t lock their phones and hasn’t for ...

Verizon currently has the most generous unlocked phones policy of all wireless carriers, but according to CNET, that will be changing soon. In an effort to combat phone theft, Verizon will begin ...

Verizon has announced that it will no longer sell unlocked phones starting this spring, adding an unspecified waiting period before customers can unlock their devices in order to deter theft.

In the case of Verizon, its devices only stay locked for 60 days, and it desperately wants that to change. In fact, so badly that it is petitioning the FCC right now.

Verizon wouldn't say how long the locked period will be once the policy change is made in the spring, adding only that it'll provide an update ahead of when it rolls out the policy. It also ...

is hoping that by locking down “unlocked” smartphones, it’ll put a damper on smartphone theft. The carrier on Monday confirmed to CNET that when customers now buy handsets from Verizon, they ...