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Promoting Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Through Handset Unlocking Requirements and Policies
The Federal Communications Commission published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on August 8, 2024. Comments closed on September 9, 2024.
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What the agency says
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) explores the use of handset unlocking policies as a means to improve consumer choice and flexibility and to enhance competition across the mobile wireless marketplace as part of the Commission's ongoing efforts to carry out its statutory obligations to ensure a competitive marketplace for mobile wireless services. Specifically, the Commission proposes to require all mobile wireless service providers to unlock handsets 60 days after a consumer's handset is activated with the provider, unless within the 60-day period the service provider determines the handset was purchased through fraud.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-16642
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed rule
- Agency
- Federal Communications Commission
- Published
- August 8, 2024
- Comments due
- September 9, 2024
- Dates
- Interested parties may file comments on or before September 9, 2024, and reply comments on or before September 23, 2024. Written comments on the Paperwork Reduction Act proposed information collection requirements must be submitted by the public, the Office of Management and Budget, and other interested parties on or before October 7, 2024. Written comments on the Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (IRFA) must have a separate and distinct heading designating them as responses to the IRFA and must be submitted by the public on or before September 9, 2024.
- Docket
- WT Docket No. 24-186; FCC 24-77; FR ID 234719
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 47 CFR 64
- Pages
- 9
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