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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
I realize that an unlocked phone is an entirely different thing from a phone running Cyanogenmod, but in terms of user control, won't this be good news for people who like to jailbreak their phones or unlock their bootloaders and install CFW? Knox made it impossible to revert to stock after installing CFW and the excuse was region fidelity. It sounds as though that practice might be superseded Stateside.
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Even before the rules were changed it usually cost money for non-hackers to unlock phones. Making it legal by law simply gives the telcos incentive for tighter lockdown coupled with fee-based unlocking of their own measures.
New law? New revenue stream.