In addition, if you buy a phone on a device payment plan, your phone could remain locked for the entire term of that contract, which for many, is 24 months. To recap, Verizon plans to lock phones for a minimum of 60 days post purchase. This allows them to “reserve” their special 0% financing rate for consumers who “intend to use their handsets exclusively on the Verizon network.”Īs for prepaid, there will also be a 60 day lock. Verizon also states that phones purchased on device payment plans could be subject to SIM locks for the entire term of the sales agreement. Theft is not the only reason for the change, though. Once 60 days is up, the lock will be “automatically” removed. They plan to SIM lock devices for 60 days after purchase if purchased at full retail or from a retail partner, so that they can’t be used on another network. The new postpaid policy will be put in place to “prevent identity theft and other fraudulent activities,” according to Verizon. However, we were able to access it again today on some of their Spanish device pages, thanks to our friend, Google cache. The new unlock policy hasn’t yet replaced their publicly posted policy ( here), but Verizon was showing the new policy yesterday on device pages. It sure seems odd to us that an entire policy change was written up and then posted to device pages for almost all to see as they browsed Verizon’s site, yet was inaccurate and not the future policy.
My guess is that it’ll look like what you see below. We can’t tell you what it will be tomorrow or next week. We’ve corrected an IT error that caused some smartphone product pages to show an inaccurate unlocking policy.”Īs of today, Verizon’s device unlock policy remains unchanged. UPDATE: Verizon’s director of corporate communications, Kelly Crummey, reached out to let us know that the policy that was posted to many of their device pages and then pulled, happened in error and was “inaccurate.” Verizon appears to be rolling out a new device unlock policy as I type this, one that will lock devices for 60 days post purchase if you buy at full retail, but could extend out for the life of a contract on a device payment plan. We still haven’t heard back from Verizon after asking for an update on their supposedly incoming new device unlock policy, where they may temporarily SIM lock devices for a period of time after purchase, but our article from last week on the subject may have moved them in the direction of finally unveiling it.
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