The Week with Roger

This Week: Will the FCC Mandate Handset Unlocks?


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Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the FCC's new plan that may require

carriers to unlock devices much sooner rather than later.

00:25 FCC plan details and carrier implications

03:11 Most people don't understand unlocking

03:44 Why are devices locked anyway?

06:03 Predictions if implemented

07:26 Carriers differ greatly on the issue

10:22 Episode wrap-up


Tags: telecom, telecommunications, wireless, prepaid, postpaid, cellular phone, Don

Kellogg, Roger Entner, FCC, unlocking, spectrum, D Block, Google, Verizon, net neutrality, Chevron deference, T-Mobile, Mint, AT&T, phone trafficking, subsidies, TracFone, Peter Adderton, MobileX

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