It’s worth noting that all three other major US carriers implemented this policy long ago. AT&T forces you to pay off your phone and have active service for 60 days before the phone can be ...

Verizon has made a move to keep phones locked to its network for more than 60 days. In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the carrier has requested the agency to waive off ...

Verizon had been required by the FCC to keep most of its phones unlocked (that's any phone on the 4G LTE network, so a lot of phones), but it seems to have carved out a way to add a locked initial ...

Locking the phones means the affected handsets would only work on Verizon’s network. The carrier has suggested it wants to do so for six months or longer. In response, the Commission began ...

Verizon will reportedly begin rolling out its new policy to sell locked phones in a multi-stage process. The company said that it’s making this change to help prevent the theft of devices from ...

The longer the locking period, the better. In the case of Verizon, its locking period is 60 days, which is the shortest of the big three mobile carriers in the US.