FCC chairman Wheeler in favor of legalizing unlocking cell phones

[Wireless News]

At the risk of stating the obvious, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission thinks that it should be legal to unlock your cell phone. Ars Technica reports that new FCC chairman Tom Wheeler told the.Senate Commerce Committee during his nomination hearing this week that he would like to see the current ban on unlocking cell phones overturned. What’s more, he criticized the Library of Congress’s decision.last fall to deny consumers the right to unlock their phones.and bring them to different carriers and said it was an example of overreach. “Who knew the Library of Congress had this far of a reach?” he said. “I am a strong supporter of intellectual property rights. At the same point in time,

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