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Are you sure it is your whole country or it's you? I mostly buy my phones outright too, but I am under no impression that everybody else does it as well.

• grishka 9mo ago
  In my country, for example, buying phones from carriers as part of your plan just isn't a thing. As in, you couldn't do it even if you wanted to. Same for postpaid plans and contracts. As a result, quite a lot of people use the "I can't believe they could make and sell an entire phone at this price" Xiaomi and similar phones.
  • Klonoar 9mo ago
    Name the country if you want this to be a useful data point.
    • pjmlp 9mo ago
      You could have checked their profile.
      • Klonoar 9mo ago
        I'm not clicking the username of every commenter I read just to account for details they should've put in the comment.
        • pjmlp 9mo ago
          Well too bad, otherwise you would have found it quicker than the time it took to write two comments.
          • Klonoar 9mo ago
            Nah, the comments I'm responding to don't really take that much effort. ;P
• pjmlp 9mo ago
  The planet is full of such countries, it isn't only me.
• tazjin 9mo ago
  I've only seen the carrier locked phones and long-term contracts in a handful of countries. I've lived in a lot of countries on three continents. In many places the default is prepaid SIMs with separately purchased phones. Sometimes the prepaying can be automated (e.g. in Russia), sometimes it involves you physically going to a shop once a month or so (e.g. in Egypt).