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Re: Why are people coming off unlimited? BINGO!!!!!
IS either go shared or go bust. There is no option to stay with what you have. Customers are FORCED to get on Shared... Unless they want to pay $600 for a phone...
How can that be a surprise when you are are forcing and not given a REAL choice?
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| No, it's a real choice, you just don't happen to like Option #2.
Get used to paying full price for your cell phone, because carrier subsidies will probably be gone by the end of the decade. It costs them a ridiculous amount of money to subsidize your smartphone purchase. The only reason they're still doing it is because smartphones are a growth industry, and they want to snap up as many customers as they can before it matures.
Once the market matures there will be no incentive for them to keep subsidizing your phone. An additional consideration will be the fact that we'll have a truly universal (LTE) standard, once VoLTE is figured out there will be no need to have carrier specific phones. |
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Camden, TN | reply to AMejia1976
said by AMejia1976:BINGO!!!!!
IS either go shared or go bust. There is no option to stay with what you have. Customers are FORCED to get on Shared... Unless they want to pay $600 for a phone...
How can that be a surprise when you are are forcing and not given a REAL choice?
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Yu know carriers don't have to offer discounts in the first place. I love how people think a phone with a 2/3 discount is some sort of right and if they don't get it they are somehow being fucked over. |
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| Cmon man, you must know better than that. First off no phone is actually worth $600 to begin with. Second, there is NO DISCOUNT. That inflated cost of the phone is then paid for by wrapping it up in your monthly bill. Its all smoke and mirrors my friend and you fell for it. |
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Re: Why are people coming off unlimited? If that statement were true, then why are Apple's shares through the roof? Because consumers have deemed that the Iphone is worth $600. Verizon pays $400 upfront to Apple, and you pay the other $199 when you purchase it which also goes to Apple. Apple collects $600 per Iphone which has made them worth billions.
Also in other countries it is quite normal to pay unsubsidized prices for phones. Americans just don't know how good they have it. |
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