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CAGW Supports Lifting of Verizon Handset-Unlocking Mandate

Citizens Against Government Waste on Tuesday supported Verizon's request that the FCC remove the unlocking commitment stipulated as a condition of approving the company’s purchase of Tracfone (see 2505200051). “The FCC should bring parity to the marketplace by granting Verizon’s…

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request,” said a filing in docket 24-186. “The FCC should help mobile providers by eliminating the unlocking requirements that open the gate to cell phone trafficking, fraud and other illegal activities.”