For years, he reportedly used several tactics to acquire the T-Mobile employee credentials needed to unlock phones, including phishing, social engineering, and even getting the carrier’s IT department ...

A couple years ago, I bought a second hand phone. Turns out it was carrier locked to Spectrum Mobile. I called them to try and unlock it and was told (and I’m paraphrasing here, two or three years ...

A former cellphone store owner made an estimated $25M by unlocking T-Mobile phones using stolen credentials. He now faces a possible prison sentence of up to 165 years … The Department of Justice said ...

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Argishti Khudaverdyan, the former owner of a T-Mobile retail store, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a $25 million scheme where he unlocked and unblocked cellphones by hacking into T-Mobile's ...

Man Hacked T-Mobile Employees to Unlock Cell Phones, Rake in $25 Million Argishti Khudaverdyan was found guilty of various offenses after he stole login credentials from more than 50 different ...

It feels like the issue should have been resolved by now, but alas, seventeen years after the launch of the original iPhone and we’re still arguing about carrier device locking. T-Mobile and AT&T this ...

T-Mobile has written to the FCC warning that the proposed 60-day unlocking rule could severely hamper the subsidies it offers to consumers. The carrier pointed out that subsidies for its prepaid ...

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Makes sense to me... I mean, if you get that brand new $1k iPhone for $0-out-of-pocket then 2-months later bail to carrier "x" who covers that loss? I don't want to, and if phones are locked there's ...