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Edited by Ninja Guardian:
1/27/2013 11:33:52 PM
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Unlocking a smartphone is now a crime in America.
Yeah this reeks of cellphone service lobbying if you ask me. Now this means that if I go out of the country I'd have to risk expensive roaming fees because I can't use a sim card from a different cell service.
Good to know that unlocking my smartphone puts me in the same group as burglars and muggers.
First time offenders can be fined for up to $500,000 or imprisoned for five years or both.
Any thoughts?
EDIT: If you guys didn't know, unlocking a smartphone just means that you can use it with multiple service providers, which is useful if you travel out of the country away from your service area frequently. Because then you can just pop in a sim card from the country you're in without having to worry about expensive roaming fees from your home service provider.
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3 RepliesOr you could, ya know, tell your phone carrier you are out of country and get an out-of-country plan for that time period. I can't see how that is prohibitively more expensive than an international sim card. The data from providers like ATT is generally cheaper than international sim card rates on data that I've seen. Most sim cards are 0.49 per meg and ATT runs 0.25 a meg or lower. Calling is more expensive, but who really makes a lot of calls nowadays anyway.
