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FCC Eyes Making Carriers Unlock All Phones Within 60 Days Of Purchase (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For decades there has been endless policy wrangling over whether “unlocking your phone” (removing restrictions allowing you to take the device with you to another carrier) should be allowed. Giant carriers have generally supported onerous phone locks because it hampers competition by making it harder to switch providers. Consumer rights groups and the public broadly support unlocked devices.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Allowing root access for Android phones free of charge is a start

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And the finish line..?

Like, install antennas to connect to any network...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Phones are also small computers, and while its wireless chipset may only be compatible with certain carriers, that doesn't mean that I shouldn't be allowed to install whatever I want on it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Try a Galaxy S5..

Antennas are proprietary to different networks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The antenna isn't chipset agnostic? TIL. I normally work with radio transmitters for LoRa and Bluetooth where the antenna is just a wire connected to a radio chipset module so I assumed 4g/5g were the same

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I don't think there are many models of phones with proprietary antennas, but there are, or at least were a couple models.