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The Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act was introduced into the United States Senate on March 11, 2013 by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D, VT). [8] It was referred to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. On July 15, 2014, the Senate voted to pass the bill with unanimous consent. [8]
SIM lock. A SIM lock, simlock, network lock, carrier lock or ( master) subsidy lock is a technical restriction built into GSM and CDMA [ 1] mobile phones by mobile phone manufacturers for use by service providers to restrict the use of these phones to specific countries and/or networks. This is in contrast to a phone (retrospectively called SIM ...
Android has been the best-selling OS worldwide on smartphones since 2011 and on tablets since 2013. As of May 2021 [update] , it had over three billion monthly active users , the largest installed base of any operating system in the world, [ 11 ] and as of 2024 [update] , the Google Play Store features 1.7 million apps, a decline from its of ...
Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota. Originally founded by Richard M. Schulze and James Wheeler in 1966 as an audio specialty store called Sound of Music, it was rebranded under its current name with an emphasis on consumer electronics in 1983.
Rooting[ 1] is the process by which users of Android devices can attain privileged control (known as root access) over various subsystems of the device, usually smartphones and tablets. Because Android is based on a modified version of the Linux kernel, rooting an Android device gives similar access to administrative ( superuser) permissions as ...
A Novatel MiFi 2372 "Intelligent Mobile Wi-Fi Hotspot" MiFi is a brand name to describe a wireless router that acts as a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot device.. In many countries, including The United States, Canada, and Mexico, Inseego Corp. (previously known as Novatel Wireless) [1] owns a registered trademark on the "MiFi" brand name; in the United Kingdom, mobile operator Hutchison 3G owns the "MiFi ...
Face ID is a biometric authentication facial recognition system designed and developed by Apple Inc. for the iPhone and iPad Pro.The system can be used for unlocking a device, [1] making payments, accessing sensitive data, providing detailed facial expression tracking for Animoji, as well as six degrees of freedom (6DOF) head-tracking, eye-tracking, and other features.
In general, the types of phones and other devices supported by the MVNOs are in line with the technologies used by the Mobile Network Operator (MNO), the underlying cellular network provider. All major and regional MNOs use 4G LTE / LTE Advanced and 5G NR protocols (2G and 3G having been deprecated and shut down), with GSM technologies.