The era of having to pay cellular providers to unlock your cellphone will end this year – at least in Canada. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has passed a law that as of Dec. 1, cellphone customers can ask their provider to unlock their phones free of charge. At the same time, it said, all newly purchased mobile Read more…

We’ve recently teamed up with the excellent people at Repair.org to help pass the various Right to Repair (or in some cases Fair Repair Act.) There are 17 states with legislation in discussion specifically addressing a consumer’s right to have their electronic devices fixed anywhere they want. NWIDA fully supports this legislation, and today we’ve emailed the stores in those Read more…

We’re thrilled to add Doug Sadowski to our Board of Advisers and our Board of Directors. Doug brings almost 30 years of wireless experience to our team, and has been part of the Metro One, AT&T Wireless, Omnipoint and (currently) TPO Wireless teams. Doug is an operations expert. Feel free to email him at doug@nwida.org.