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> I paid for the phone. I own it. I can do whatever I bloody please with it. But you didn't pay for it. You paid for part of it. The phone provider paid for th
by tvladeck 14y ago
> I paid for the phone. I own it. I can do whatever I bloody please with it.
But you didn't pay for it. You paid for part of it. The phone provider paid for the other part of it. In exchange for the use of something you didn't completely pay for, you agree to certain conditions.
- darkarmani 14y agoNo, you completely paid for it. You get a discount on the phone when you agree to contractual obligations. You own the phone no matter what, irrelevant to the performance of your contractual obligations.
- b0o 14y agoYou're partially correct in that you would still be "paying" for the phone through your contract, but once you get the phone, you own it, but because most contracts state that if you were to cancel your contract before its completion, you would have to pay a cancellation fee, most of which would be the "subsidy" portion for your phone. This is to prevent people from getting iphone 5s for free and then running off with them and selling them on craigslist or china for $1000 (which you'd probably still make money even if you paid the $600 or $700 cancellation fee)