I want to buy a Samsung Focus Flash unlocked. AT&T is the only carrier offering this phone right now. I was told that because it's new, they will not be selling it unlocked for another six months. Can ...

Major cellular carriers — Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and others — typically lock their networks to the iPhone you buy from their stores or pay for via an installment plan. What does that really ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Back in the early days of smartphones, options for ...

The DOJ said the scheme allowed buyers to stop using AT&T as a provider. The Department of Justice has unsealed charges against a man who allegedly paid AT&T "insiders" more than a million dollars ...

A US district court has sentenced a man who unlocked 1.9 million AT&T phones to 12 years in prison. Muhammad Fahd continued the seven-year scheme to defraud the company even after learning of an ...

Two men bribed AT&T employees with more than $1 million to plant malware and use the company’s own systems to unlock millions of AT&T phones, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said Monday.

The US Department of Justice alleges that a scheme to unlock phones on the company's network robbed AT&T of millions of dollars. Corinne Reichert (she/her) grew up in Sydney, Australia and moved to ...

Customer Social Security numbers and call records are exposed in a bid to get smartphone "unlock" codes from AT&T. Carrie Mihalcik Former Managing Editor / News Carrie was a managing editor at CNET ...

Since the launch of the very first iPhone, customers in the U.S. could only get their hands on the device if they were willing to ink a two-year contract with a cell phone carrier. iPhone users in ...

LG provides a myriad of phones for several different service carriers. However, not all phones can be unlocked, and not all LG phones can be unlocked. The only types of phones that can be unlocked are ...

A Pakistani man bribed AT&T call-center employees to install malware and unauthorized hardware as part of a scheme to fraudulently unlock cell phones, according to the US Department of Justice.

A man who the Department of Justice says unlocked AT&T customers’ phones for a fee was sentenced to 12 years in prison, in what the judge called “a terrible cybercrime over an extended period,” which ...