Some big news came out of a proposed class-action settlement in California where Sprint has agreed to unlock departing customers' phones so they can be used with other compatible networks. CDMA phones are typically the hardest to unlocked because they have been manufactured to be locked to the particular carriers. Sprint is now preparing to share the necessary unlocking codes with all current and former subscribers once their phones are deactivated and their bills are paid. The settlement covers customers who bought a Sprint phone between Aug. 28, 1999, and July 16, 2007. A final approval hearing for the California suit has yet to be scheduled.




The codes won't work for Sprint's Nextel-branded phones, which use iDEN technology, and don't allow switching to AT&T or T-Mobile, which use GSM technology.

Sprint made the offer as part of the proposed settlement of a California class-action lawsuit, filed last year, accusing the company of anticompetitive practices.

T-Mobile is facing a similar class-action lawsuit in California. Users of the iPhone, which is locked to the AT&T network, filed two separate lawsuits last week against the carrier and Apple Inc., claiming its use restrictions and a software upgrade that disables unlocked iPhones constituted unfair business practices.

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