This Week: Will the FCC Mandate Handset Unlocks?
Jul 22, 2024•11 min•Season 1Ep. 201
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Episode description
Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the FCC's new plan that may require
carriers to unlock devices much sooner rather than later.
00:25 FCC plan details and carrier implications
03:11 Most people don't understand unlocking
03:44 Why are devices locked anyway?
06:03 Predictions if implemented
07:26 Carriers differ greatly on the issue
10:22 Episode wrap-up
Tags: telecom, telecommunications, wireless, prepaid, postpaid, cellular phone, Don
Kellogg, Roger Entner, FCC, unlocking, spectrum, D Block, Google, Verizon, net neutrality, Chevron deference, T-Mobile, Mint, AT&T, phone trafficking, subsidies, TracFone, Peter Adderton, MobileX
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