Some AT&T Partners to Cease Selling Contracts

Although carriers do make more money selling phones on installment plans. People on installment payment actually pay more for phones than they would with a contractual $200 subsidy pricing, and they usually get tricked into trading in their old phone as well for pennies on the dollar. If you get into a plan where you have to trade in your old device you are paying them for to lease a handset, which isn't always a bad thing but lets be honest about it.
And the carriers might pump the freedom talk to anyone that will listen but when you talk to them on the phone, they are all about renewing your contract or getting you into one, because they are in the business of making money.
Contracts make more money for the carrier and if you dont pay...
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