It has finally happened, and iPhone unlock along with other phone unlocking has become legal in the U.S. after President Barack Obama signed the bill making it law. He signed it on Friday, August 1, making legal phone unlocking beginning from August 2, 2014.
This law makes it much easier for customers to switch SIM cards and mobile operators without having to purchase a new smartphone.
Legal iPhone unlock makes millions people happy as people could get in trouble for ordering factory or other type of unlock from third-party companies since January 2013 and till August 2, 2014.
Obama sings unlocking bill called the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act and confirms that the decision taken by the Library of Congress in winter 2013 is reversed now. It was not allowed to unlock handsets across the U.S. if you didn’t get a special permission from your carrier and most carriers could unlock iPhones or other mobile devices purchased with a 2-year contract only after the contract expired and under certain conditions.
It is now legal to unlock iPhone so you can feel the relief and simply order factory unlock right now. You will not have any problems with law because unlock becomes legal in the U.S., finally, after nearly two years of complaints and dreams.
U.S. legal unlock allows you simply change the network if you are not satisfied with the one you are using. Even if you decide to purchase the new AT&T iPhone 6 or iPhone 5S from T-Mobile at a subsidized price with 2-year contract, you will be able to unlock it from the network and use with any other carrier of your choice changing SIMs as often as you wish.
Unlocking is the best thing to do before you go on a trip overseas as using local SIM cards can save you bunch of money as you won’t have to pay your American carrier for roaming services.
The unlocking bill surprisingly easily went through Congress a week ago and got an approve from both Congress and now Mr. Obama.
The bill got over 114 thousand signatures from people who want to be unlocked and wanted it to be officially allowed by the government.
Let’s see what CBSNews reported: