I have a bone to pick! Time and time again I am running into locked phones. I don’t mean the front pass code on the phone or the icloud lock or even the restriction locks that parents but on phones. I mean the lock that carriers but on phones to prevent you from taking your phone to another carrier.
OK’ I get it, if the customer signed up for one of those “Pay $0.00 for this kick ass phone” then you should have to sign a contract to that carrier and completely pay for the phone, but the customer should have the option to either buy that phone out, or when they are done paying for the phone it should be theirs with NO unlock fee.
We need to ensure that the CRTC is acting in the public’s best interest. So what are they saying about it. Well, I looked it up;
So what can we do to stop being held hostage. Go to the CRTC website and and make a complaint.