ian douglas wrote: > But the carriers in America, in my experience (and I currently use a > phone on each of Verizon, AT&T and TMobile), simply don't discount their > monthly plan rates for using an unlocked phone on their network. > Whatever portion of your monthly plan isn't otherwise going towards a > subsidy is pure profit for them. > > They're not about to give us a 10% or 20% break on our monthly bill, or > whatever percentage pays for the subsidy of a locked phone (like the > iPhone), otherwise the 'subsidy' no longer appears as a subsidy to the > end user who *does* buy a locked phone, the user sees it exactly as you > stated it -- they're financing their phone. And AT&T is going to want > that to appear as 'transparent' as possible to the consumer. > > That's my thought on it, anyway. > > -id > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > Oh okay so its semantics then.
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