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 ...

Tech activists and consumers can claim victory in the fight over unlocking cell phones, as the FCC and top wireless companies reached an agreement in the long war to make the practice legal again. The ...

July 18 (UPI) --The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday proposed a rule requiring all mobile carriers to unlock customers' phones within 60 days of activation. The agency in a statement said ...

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 recently over the Librarian of Congress’ ...

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 ...