{"id":8380,"date":"2013-01-26T19:46:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T03:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=8380"},"modified":"2013-01-26T19:52:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T03:52:44","slug":"illegal-unlock-phone-a-petition-to-reverse-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/illegal-unlock-phone-a-petition-to-reverse-that\/","title":{"rendered":"It is now illegal to unlock your phone, but there is a petition to reverse that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/it-is-now-illegal-to-unlock-your-phone-but-there-is-a-petetion-to-reverse-that\/whitehouse-petition\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8381\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8381\" alt=\"whitehouse petition\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/whitehouse-petition-300x86.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/whitehouse-petition-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/whitehouse-petition.jpg 584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As I wrote yesterday, it is now<a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/unlocking-your-phone-will-be-illegal-tomorrow-should-you-care\/\"> illegal to unlock your phone<\/a> to work on another carriers network. This will make quite a few people unhappy, especially those who make a business out of helping people get the codes needed to unlock their phones.\u00a0 But they are not taking this laying down, already there is a<a href=\"https:\/\/petitions.whitehouse.gov\/petition\/make-unlocking-cell-phones-legal\/1g9KhZG7\"> petition with the White house<\/a> to overturn or at least make unlocking permanently legal.\u00a0 Unfortunately, they need 82,128 signatures and are currently only at 17,872.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/it-is-now-illegal-to-unlock-your-phone-but-there-is-a-petetion-to-reverse-that\/whitehouse-petition-unlock\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8382\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8382\" alt=\"whitehouse petition unlock\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/whitehouse-petition-unlock-300x43.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"43\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/whitehouse-petition-unlock-300x43.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/whitehouse-petition-unlock.jpg 674w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the first day so perhaps the news needs to spread out a bit more or perhaps a few more phone users need to run into this road block. We&#8217;ll see.\u00a0 What I really hope is that consumers will start to realize the reason their cell phones service costs so much is because so many customers get locked into two year deals thus killing competition.\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 I think that hope is about as high as this petition getting signed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H3>Related Posts<\/H3><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Unlocking your phone will be illegal tomorrow.  Should you care?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/unlocking-your-phone-will-be-illegal-tomorrow-should-you-care\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Unlocking your phone will be illegal tomorrow.  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No jailbreak \/ unlocked needed anymore<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Iphone4 FAQ jailbreaking unlocking edition\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/iphone4-faq-jailbreaking-unlocking-edition\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Iphone4 FAQ jailbreaking unlocking edition<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"T-Mobile now has an iPhone friendly micro-Sim. Closer&#8230;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/t-mobile-now-has-an-iphone-friendly-micro-sim-closer\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">T-Mobile now has an iPhone friendly micro-Sim. Closer&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrote yesterday, it is now illegal to unlock your phone to work on another carriers network. This will make quite a few people unhappy, especially those who make a business out of helping people get the codes needed to unlock their phones.\u00a0 But they are not taking this laying down, already there is&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/illegal-unlock-phone-a-petition-to-reverse-that\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,3,961,170],"tags":[276,208,1961],"class_list":["post-8380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andriod","category-iphone","category-mobile","category-other-smart-phones","tag-legal","tag-unlock","tag-whitehouse-petition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjzQD-2ba","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8380"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8390,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380\/revisions\/8390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}