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That's also my assumption. In Europe carriers typically have much less to say. In some countries many people have SIM-only contracts and buy their own unlocked
by gst 15y ago
That's also my assumption.
In Europe carriers typically have much less to say. In some countries many people have SIM-only contracts and buy their own unlocked phones from a third party.
- iwwr 15y agoNot to mention that operator phones tend to be crippled, locked-down versions of the original hardware. So I wonder why people don't just take consumer credit or pay in full for a device rather than use it on an operator contract.
- pavlov 15y agoIn the US, they apparently don't get the choice. You pay something ridiculous like $80/month for a smartphone plan that includes a device subsidy. Or you can bring your own full-price device... And still pay $80/month! If they had any sort of functioning government oversight over the telecoms, that shouldn't be legal.
- anonymoushn 15y agoWe have something like that. Generally we solve this problem by noticing it, creating an agency to deal with it, and then filling the agency with the employees of the companies that are causing the problem.
- trezor 15y agoIn some countries many people have SIM-only contracts and buy their own unlocked phones from a third party. I would argue this is the norm in most of Europe, not just "some countries". Only where the telcom business have gone completely unregulated for too long, have the USesque system of carriers controlling phones taken hold.