If You Can't Open It, You Don't Own It -- Unlocking Your Cellphone

[Commentary] Who owns your cellphone? Or, not to put too fine a point on it: who controls what you can do with your cellphone after you’ve paid for it? You probably saw a number of headlines this week in the vein of “White House: cell phone unlocking should be legal”, but the opinion released by the Obama Administration on March 4 is not the beginning of the story, nor is it the end – not by a long shot. Although the White House announced it agrees with thousands of We The People petitioners that smartphone and tablet users should be allowed to unlock their phones and use the devices on the network of their choosing, there's a long way to go to make that a reality.