Verizon has quietly rewritten the rules that once made it relatively painless to take your phone to another carrier. A long ...

A waiver issued Monday by the FCC means you’ll have to wait longer or pay off your phone’s balance earlier to take a phone purchased from Verizon to another carrier.

Verizon has started enforcing a 365-day lock period on phones purchased through its TracFone division, one week after the ...

The Federal Communications Commission revised a long-standing rule that required Verizon Communications to unlock ​its mobile phones 60 days after activation, which it said ‌is costing the ...

The FCC waives a 2007 “handset unlocking” rule that regulators say helped fuel phone theft and fraud, exploiting Verizon cell phone users for years.

The FCC has officially scrapped its 60-day phone unlocking requirements for Verizon. Verizon can now lock phones for longer periods of time for both prepaid and postpaid customers. While the new rules ...