# Unlocking your phone = illegal now.

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**Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\
**Created:** [February 25, 2013, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unlocking-your-phone-illegal-now/266328 "2013-02-25T18:30:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![adamea1635](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@adamea1635](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/adamea1635)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 8:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unlocking-your-phone-illegal-now/266328/3 "2013-02-26T08:51:29Z")

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> [@\*\*\*Official: My Bubble Tea Sunday Meets\*\*\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-my-bubble-tea-sunday-meets/45196/515):
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> wow. next thing you know it big govt will tell you another thing to do.
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> this is pushing the limits imo. why does govt need to have a controling hand in unlocking phones? wow

The way I interpreted it, was that it was giving control back to the carriers on if they want their phones unlocked or not. Not making it so the Gov’t decides which phones can be unlocked and which ones cannot. If a carrier wants to sell an unlocked phone phone they can, but unlocking a phone that is not supposed to be unlocked would be where you have a problem. Or at least that is how I read it??

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