Your phone's SIM card allows the device to make calls, send texts, and connect to the internet. The SIM card provides a phone number that identifies your device on the carrier's network, whether it's ...

(Subscriber Identity Module lock) A function in GSM cellphones that restricts the phone's use to a particular cellular carrier identified by a SIM card. SIM locks are used to ensure subscribers finish ...

Have you ever gotten a new phone only to find out it’s locked to a specific carrier? This often happens when you purchase a subsidized phone from a carrier. The carrier locks the phone so you can’t ...

For the better part of the last decade, Verizon’s smartphones haven’t been SIM-locked. That means that a Verizon phone can work on basically any other network even if you bought it directly from the ...

The new Samsung Galaxy Note 5 requires a nano SIM card for you to place calls, access the Internet, download applications, and share photos over your network service ...

Update, October 19, 2018 (12:20PM EST): It’s not clear whether it’s from customer backlash or if it was always planned this way, but Verizon is apparently remotely SIM-unlocking all Google Pixel 3 ...

The Pixel 4 was aggressively discounted over the holidays, especially from the Google Store. And some buyers over the past two weeks have reported receiving unlocked phones SIM locked to Xfinity ...