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New Verizon Device Unlock Policy is Live and Surprisingly Automatic

Kellen January 27, 2026 10

Verizon began updating device unlock policies for its various prepaid brands shortly after the FCC gave it a waiver that allowed it to do so. We assumed the main device unlock policy for Verizon itself would follow shortly and it now has. The new Verizon...

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T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon Device Unlock Policies

Kellen January 27, 2026 8

One of the hottest topics of the moment for the US wireless industry is device unlock policies or SIM unlock policies. With Verizon getting a waiver from the FCC to implement whatever unlock policy they would like, it's probably a good idea that everyone knows...

Verizon Wastes No Time Switching Device Unlock Policy to 365 Days

Kellen January 20, 2026 35

When the FCC cleared Verizon of its 60-day device unlock policy a week ago, we talked about how the government agency, which is as anti-consumer as it has ever been at the moment, was giving Verizon the power to basically create whatever unlock policy it...

Verizon Convinces FCC to Kill Its 60-Day Phone Unlocking Rule and That’s Bad

Kellen January 13, 2026 30

Verizon no longer has to automatically unlock your phone after 60 days and their new unlock policy could be anything, thanks to a new waiver by the FCC. During the height of its struggles to keep postpaid customers around in May of 2025, Verizon asked the FCC...

Verizon is Losing Tons of Customers, Begs FCC to Make It Harder for You to Unlock Your Phone

Kellen May 22, 2025 48

Verizon is losing customers at an incredible rate. Their expensive plans that removed all of the perks that made their previous plans worth signing up for, unsurprisingly haven't been winning over the wireless customer base. Instead, plans from T-Mobile and AT...

FYI: Verizon’s 60-Day Device Lock Policy is Live

Kellen August 19, 2019

Apologies for not following up on this sooner, but Verizon's FCC-approved 60-day device lock policy is live and has been for the past month. In July, Verizon posted the new policy to their site without much noise. To recap the new policy, Verizon has said that...

Verizon Readies 60-Day Phone Lock Policy We Outed Last Year (Updated)

Kellen February 22, 2019

UPDATE JUNE 25: The FCC gave Verizon a partial waiver to go ahead and implement this new 60-day locking policy. Back in September, we noticed that Verizon had briefly added a new device unlock policy to their website, a policy that was going to SIM lock...

New Verizon Device Unlock Policy Arrives Briefly, Gets Pulled, is “Inaccurate” (Updated)

Kellen September 11, 2018

We still haven't heard back from Verizon after asking for an update on their supposedly incoming new device unlock policy, where they may temporarily SIM lock devices for a period of time after purchase, but our article from last week on the subject may have...