House passes cellphone unlocking bill that now only needs Obama's signature

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13 pieces of advice for Yosemite beta testers 11 signs you've been hacked -- and how to fight back Network World Daily News PM July 25, 2014 Share this email House passes cellphone unlocking bill that now only needs Obama's signature The U.S. House of Representatives has just passed a bill that will once again give consumers the right to unlock their cellphones, meaning the legislation is only a presidential signature away from becoming law.Sina Khanifar, whose petitioning of the White House got the ball rolling on this almost two years, says via an email: The Senate's cellphone unlocking bill, S517, just passed unanimously in the House of Representatives.Now it just requires the President's signature to become law. It took 19 months of activism and advocacy, but we're finally very close to consumers regaining the right to unlock the phones they've legally bought. 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