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T-Mobile Wants to Eliminate All Overages by All Carriers, Creates Change.org Petition

Kellen April 14, 2014 52

In day three of its most recent string of UnCarrier moves, T-Mobile has announced today that it is killing off overage charges for its customers and encouraging AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint to do the same with a Change.org petition. T-Mobile calls overage...

Petition to Make Unlocking Phones Legal Again Crosses 100,000 Signature Mark, White House Must Respond

Kellen February 21, 2013 77

As of January 26, it is illegal to take a carrier-tied smartphone, unlock it without their permission, and then use it on another carrier. The Librarian of Congress decided that you have plenty of options and shouldn't take advantage of carrier subsidies in...

Not a Fan of Verizon’s New Upgrade Fee? There are Already a Handful of Petitions for That

Kellen April 11, 2012 167

Ahhh yes, petitions. Company A changes a policy or initiates a new fee - Consumer A, B, C, and D all start new petitions to try to stop it. Not that there is a problem with that, but it happens like clockwork each and every time. As is the case with Verizon's...

Electronic Frontier Foundation Petitioning To Keep Rooting And Jailbreaking Phones and Tablets Legal

Eric January 26, 2012 47

In 2010 the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was passed to help stem the ever present problem of copyrighting media in the digital age. The Electronic Frontier Foundation worked hard though to get a few exemptions to this bill, namely protecting remix...