The practice of unlocking a phone for use with another company, which is so widespread in our country, became illegal on January 26, 2013 , with some exceptions. The most important exception is that the original operator who gave us the phone must agree to the unlocking of the phone.
The law proposed by the DMCA ( Digital Millennium Copyright Act) came into effect on January 26th of this year, 2013 , and is what companies are currently clinging to tooth and nail to retain their customers with the excuse of not unlocking the terminal to be used with other companies.
This shows us that the laws are designed to protect and safeguard the interests of large mobile phone companies, since this new measure affects previous laws that were in force in our country, which required the aforementioned companies, after one year of the acquisition of the telephone terminal and upon request of the interested party, to provide, free of charge, the unlock code of the device so that it could be used on a network other than that of the original operator.
From here we appeal to the common sense of the companies in the mobile phone sector to take the example of AT&T , which will provide the unlock code for its terminals to all customers who request it and who meet some common sense requirements.
Requirements for AT&T to provide you with the unlock code
- Have no pending payment with the company
- Having complied with the contracted services, that is, if a line was contracted with a permanence of 24 months, it must have been fulfilled.
- The account must be active at the time of requesting the terminal unlock code.
Let's hope that Spanish telephone companies don't cling to this law to try to keep their customers at all costs, and that they take good note of the measures taken by AT&T and incorporate them into their company policies to allow unlocking mobile phones for use with other companies if that's what the user wants.
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