Unlocking new smartphone becomes harder Saturday
You try to keep as still existing mobile phones and makes it difficult to move between smartphone companies.
According to a recent decision by the Library of Congress of the United States legally, smartphones purchased after Saturday, can not be opened without the permission of the carrier.
Access to content is protected by copyright illegal technology to break digital rights management, our Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. 1 to ensure support smartphone software is covered by the law, and unlock the phone, which is the process of releasing the device in order to use different wireless carriers.
Library of Congress, the act was done in the past for smartphone users who want to unlock their phones have the ability to grant an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Was changed to the more recent group exemption, which came into force on October 28, as noted TechNewsDaily, switch, including a grace period of 90 days that ended on Saturday.
It is legal to unlock your mobile phone is purchased before Jan. 26 without permission but the new policy applies to the new phone lock was purchased after Saturday.
One way to avoid the requirements, would be to buy a mobile phone that is unlocked full price you do not have a contract to do so, you can add hundreds of dollars to the price of mobile phone. Typically, in a two-year contract, subsidizes the cost of smart phones to attract new customers, the company, to make money from the monthly bill for voice and data.
According to his most recent, and the software on the phone, they are software, as it is not covered by the rules of fair use and, therefore, does not, ie, from the Library of Congress, the end user license I decided that it is.
More expensive phones and claim to be anti-competitive is that the group that lobbied to keep the exemption will be unlocked to make it illegal, some consumers do not need to buy a new device for switching the company can lead to electronic waste.
However, I will say a final judgment, the options are many, and now we have to get a mobile phone that is unlocked more than in previous years. Are provided opens to full price, many mobile phone carrier has a policy to unlock the phone. The current rules are different for each carrier of the carrier.
For example, if you adhere to all contracts, AT & T, unlock the iPhone for current or past clients. Verizon iPhone 5 is available in the AT & T said.
However, the mobile phone operator has been unlocked in the future, it is unclear whether these standards will strengthen.Thank you CNN..From Reetime News Technology
