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From working at a att store for a while, I'll say that there is far more fraud than most would think. Perhaps it was because I worked in a little bit of a poore
by thatguy0900 5y ago
From working at a att store for a while, I'll say that there is far more fraud than most would think. Perhaps it was because I worked in a little bit of a poorer area, but we actively turned away 25-40% of customers on any given day out of suspicion of fraud. If a customer stopped paying for their phone we would have that commission taken back next month. Even with that many people being turned down you still lost a lot of commission every month.
- infogulch 5y agoThis is more an indication that the problem is being solved at the wrong level of abstraction. The problem is that phone companies are handing out loans with no way to enforce collateral and without tying to some real persons credit. Being able to install your own OS on a phone is orthogonal to being able to use it as a secure collateral.
- thatguy0900 5y agoWell, you can once the phone is paid for. We could give out codes to unlock it from our network after that. Noone wants to buy phones outright or put money down, though. I agree you should be able to install whatever os you want once it's paid for as well, but I was under the impression that's a manufacturer thing not a carrier thing.