Because the carriers don't want people to buy a phone and then ditch it immediately, they also added a software layer of security that limits the phone to their network.

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George Hotz has released what is, as far as we know, the first software-based mechanism for unlocking the iPhones running software/firmware 1.1.3 for use on unauthorized wireless carriers. Hotz is ...

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday proposed a rule requiring all mobile carriers to unlock customers' phones within 60 days of activation.

T-Mobile OnePlus 8T and OnePlus 8 5G phone users are unable to unlock their phones using the unlock tokens on the OnePlus site. Users identified this issue plaguing the unlock procedure on the ...

The first free, open source iPhone unlocking software has been released. There's really not much more to say about this other than it does pretty much what iPhoneSIMfree does, but that you don't ...

Rivian overhauled the Phone as a Key (PaaK) features with massive improvements to proximity locking and unlocking with the upcoming software update 2023.42 ...