The Senate approved cellphone unlocking legislation by unanimous...
The Senate approved cellphone unlocking legislation by unanimous consent Tuesday. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., had introduced a bipartisan compromise version of his Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act (S-517) earlier this summer and easily cleared it…
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from committee. The compromise mirrored a cellphone unlocking bill that passed the House earlier this year. “With the Senate’s swift action last night, just days after the Judiciary Committee approved the measure, I hope the House will soon take up and pass our bill so that consumers will be able to use their existing cell phones on the wireless carrier of their choice,” Leahy said in a statement Wednesday.