When you unlock a phone, it means that you alone own the device and can use it with any cell phone carrier.

If you're an AT&T customer, you can unlock your phone using a portal on the AT&T website. You'll need to have paid all of your bills first.

Many people don’t realize if they buy their phone from their phone company, it will be locked to prevent it from working on the networks of any other carrier. (Jim Rossman/TNS)(Jim Rossman / TNS) If ...

Apologies in advance for the rant, but AT&T’s response to the controversy over cell phone unlocking really gets under my skin. You may have noticed an uproar ...

Following a petition back in March that asked the Obama administration to legalize unlocking cell phones without carrier permission and the administration's response endorsing it, the National ...

The White House gives full support to cell phone unlocking petition. March 4, 2013 — -- The White House has responded to an online petition to make cellphone unlocking legal, and that should make ...