It is now legal, again, to unlock your cell phone, thanks to the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act. Here's everything you need to know.

Nokia and Sony Ericsson are looking to crack the unlocked phone market in the U.S., but their quest will be an uphill battle.

Unlocking a smart phone to run on a different carrier. It seems completely innocuous, right? Something you’d do with a bit of time on your weekend just to see if you could. Surprise! It’s ...

Unlocking cellphones is legal again; here’s the skinny on the law President Obama signed a bill that once again makes it legal for consumers to unlock their cell phones.

Lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle pass a bill that will make unlocking a cell phone legal again. But will it really give consumers more choices?

Legislation to allow people to "unlock" their cell phones won unanimous support on Capitol Hill and is about to become law. But the bill won't have much practical effect for most people. Cell ...

The process of unlocking frees up a device so that it can be taken from one carrier's network to another. It's nice to be able to do when you want to bring your phone from, say, AT&T, to T-Mobile ...

A bill sitting on President Obama's desk is likely to please consumers. If it becomes law, it will make legal the practice of "unlocking" mobile phones so they can be used on any carrier with a ...

In 2012, the Library of Congress ruled that you couldn't unlock your cell phone from your carrier without their permission. Congress has finally passed a law that will make it legal again.

In August, President Obama signed the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, a law ensuring that companies and consumers have the right to unlock their own cell phones. Now, just ...

Opinion: One cheer for the new cellphone unlocking bill A man checks his phone as he passes a T-Mobile store in New York in September 2012.

The White House has responded to a petition to make unlocking cell phones legal. It says it fully supports the petition.