* Dean Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070226 18:16]: > Sure not a problem but when you are finished `papering' please explain to > all the consumers why the costs of their $49 (or free) handsets just > doubled or tripled to full retail/manufacturing costs.
Well, that's bullshit. In Germany you get usually non-simlocked phones with your contract, and that's it. In Austria, other tradition, you get usually simlocked phone with contracts, but it's relativly cheap after the contract expired to get the network operator to unlock it. The relevant bit here is, that the thing that allowes the operator to offer the lower rates is the contract, not the simlock. One last interesting thing, non-supported phones when sold by the operators in Austria are priced quite high, AND do include the simlock. And it's obviously legal to unlock it anyway, because some discount operator has been recommending 3rd-party unlock services ;) Andreas _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
