Starting Today, It's Illegal to Unlock Your Cellphone (Joanna Stern/ABCNEWS)

Starting Today, It's Illegal to Unlock Your Cellphone (Joanna Stern/ABCNEWS):
Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS:

Starting Today, It's Illegal to Unlock Your Cellphone  —  You likely have a cellphone that you bought from a carrier, like AT&T, Verizon or Sprint, and that phone only works on that carrier's cellular and data network — unless you “unlock” it.  —  That is a software process that allows …