Verizon Discusses Handset-Unlocking Waiver With Gomez Aide
Verizon representatives met with an aide to FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez about the company’s request to waive the handset-unlocking requirement that it agreed to as a provision of its acquisition of Tracfone and its purchase of 700 MHz C-block licenses…
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in a 2008 auction (see 2505200051). “We discussed the large and growing problem of device trafficking and fraud, and discussed how the existing requirement on Verizon to automatically unlock handsets after 60 days contributes to those problems,” said a filing Tuesday in docket 24-186. Handset locking “is one of the few effective tools to address trafficking and deter bad actors.”