Supreme Court Oks Cell Phone Unlocking Class Action Lawsuit
May 28, 2008 11:15 AM | AT&T | T-Mobile | Comments (0)
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday denied T-Mobile and AT&T to end a class-action lawsuit challenging the carriers' policies against unlocking mobile phones. The court declined to review the California Supreme Court decision made last October that cleared the way for a lawsuit that attorneys claimed could represent "millions" of California customers. Verizon and Sprint, both CDMA carriers, in response to similar lawsuits agreed to provide the software code to unlock cellphones after customers completed their original contract. T-Mobile and AT&T are accused of unfair business practices by locking down their phones to their service plans and have fought the lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court. The GSM network carriers are accused of unfair business practices by locking their phones to their service plans. Last year, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington listed cell phone unlocking as one of six new exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA. |  |
