You can, just not if it's locked to a specific carrier.
Carriers often do that to prevent people from rooting their phone or removing Carrier identification to resell the phone.
Stupid design either way
It may not be the case anymore but in the past you could go into Verizon and ask/tell them to unlock the phone once it was paid off and they would. I did it probably 12 years ago at this point but also haven't had Verizon in 8+ years
It still is the case.
I mean…. that kinda makes sense. They don’t want someone to skip out on payments. There’s no excuse for ASUS though
That's not how carrier phone payment plans work.
Bootloader locking is different than carrier lock.
Regardless, you owe whatever you signed for, phone, or no phone.
You can, just not if it's locked to a specific carrier. Carriers often do that to prevent people from rooting their phone or removing Carrier identification to resell the phone. Stupid design either way
It may not be the case anymore but in the past you could go into Verizon and ask/tell them to unlock the phone once it was paid off and they would. I did it probably 12 years ago at this point but also haven't had Verizon in 8+ years
It still is the case.
I mean…. that kinda makes sense. They don’t want someone to skip out on payments. There’s no excuse for ASUS though
That's not how carrier phone payment plans work.
Bootloader locking is different than carrier lock.
Regardless, you owe whatever you signed for, phone, or no phone.