Comment on Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This is stupid. Part of the agreement to allow them to buy a certain spectrum was that they unlocked sims after 60 days.
What’s the point of all this if rules don’t matter?
NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
For a long time, you couldn’t really buy an unlocked phone straight from the manufacturer in the US. The closest thing was importing one is with the correct network bands (GSM), but that also kind of went away when VoLTE became a requirement.
Relatively recently, some manufacturers started offering unlocked devices sold straight from them, but it wasn’t until Apple started doing it with the iPhone that it became a mass-appeal/well known thing.
So overall it’s because:
Nowadays more people are aware about buying an unlocked phone instead of a carrier firmware/carrier locked device. But in the US I’d say most people only know about iPhones being offered unlocked.