AT&T: Device Subsidies Likely to Go Away
No subsidy - No carrier locking
I know it may sound absurd in this day and age when cell phones are ubiquitous, but when they were first introduced, carriers had a hard time convincing people to sign up. People would say 'why would I want a portable phone, I have my home phone, if someone calls me when I'm not there I have my answering machine, and if I need to make a call when I'm out pay phones are everywhere, why the hell would I want to carry a phone with me everywhere I go?'
They had to start giving the phones away to get people to sign up at all.
The cell phone subsidy is actually a continuation of the home phone subsidy which existed for de...
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In talking about getting rid of subsidies, he's actually raising the possibility of eliminating carrier branded phones altogether.....that is the only practical implication of what he is saying.
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