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Yes. In Canada, the phones are not locked, but if you terminate your contract before the term (max 2 years) you have to pay the remaining cost.
by lbourdages 2y ago
Yes. In Canada, the phones are not locked, but if you terminate your contract before the term (max 2 years) you have to pay the remaining cost.
- Amezarak 2y agoWhat happens if you don’t pay? I ask this out of genuine curiosity - I’m not sure what happens in the US either, I don’t believe they brick carrier-locked phones that a customer stops paying for but I’m not sure. But I’ve enough experiences with enough people to know this is probably actually a fairly common scenario and I wonder what the consequences are. (A surprising amount of the time, there are no real consequences.)
- lbourdages 2y agoA phone contract is on one's credit report. If they don't pay, the phone company will try to recover the debt like any other debt (via nagging, and then selling the debt to a collection agency). It's not fundamentally different from not paying the bill at the end of the month.