The US carriers want to charge you at least $30/m extra for the privilege, and it's an easier sell when there's extra hardware involved. Eventually they'll giv

The US carriers want to charge you at least $30/m extra for the privilege, and it's an easier sell when there's extra hardware involved. Eventually they'll give up as more open phones fill the market, the same way the consumer broadband ISPs gave up on locking service to client MAC addresses and charging extra for more IPs in the face of $50 Linksys boxes flooding the market.