Verizon Wants To Lock Down Phones To Protect Consumers - Cnet

Marguerite Reardon, CNET
Fri, 02/22/2019 - 12:29pm

The carrier says 7,000 customers a month have their identities stolen by thieves who order new phones and sell them on the black market.

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