A waiver issued Monday by the FCC means you’ll have to wait longer or pay off your phone’s balance earlier to take a phone purchased from Verizon to another carrier.
The change to the FCC’s handset-unlocking rules, which had required Verizon to unlock phones it sold after 60 days, is “a more uniform approach” that ends a Verizon-specific regulation, the agency says. Verizon accepted this restriction as a condition for it buying $9.4 billion worth of analog-TV spectrum in…

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