Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones
摘要
Verizon旗下TracFone部门开始执行新的手机解锁政策，要求用户购买后需完成365天付费服务方可申请解锁。此前因频谱许可及并购条件限制，Verizon需在手机激活60天后自动解锁。此次政策调整意味着TracFone恢复至2021年被收购前的一年锁定期，取代了此前为满足并购条件而实施的60天自动解锁规则。
Verizon has started enforcing a 365-day lock period on phones purchased through its TracFone division, one week after the Federal Communications Commission waived a requirement that Verizon unlock handsets 60 days after they are activated on its network.
Verizon was previously required to unlock phones automatically after 60 days due to restrictions imposed on its spectrum licenses and merger conditions that helped Verizon obtain approval of its purchase of TracFone. But an update applied today to the TracFone unlocking policy said new phones will be locked for at least a year and that each customer will have to request an unlock instead of getting it automatically.
The "new" TracFone policy is basically a return to the yearlong locking it imposed before Verizon bought the company in 2021. TracFone first agreed to provide unlocking in a 2015 settlement with the Obama-era FCC, which alleged that TracFone failed to comply with a commitment to unlock phones for customers enrolled in the Lifeline subsidy program. TracFone later shortened the locking period from a year to 60 days as a condition of the Verizon merger.
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