Right, you have to have a carrier to use a cell phone, but they still want to tie you to their brand.
I never said any money from the purchase went to the carrier. What I did say was that the carrier pays a subsidy if you sign a contract.
When I was with Verizon for more than 2 years, after the first contract ran out, it cost no more to buy the next phone and stay month to month. There was no advantage to sign another contract, and I was having lots of technical issues, which they could not or would not fix. Turns out it was a known issue with the cell phone they would not admit to.
I have been with AT&T since 2005. There was no advantage to buy and bring a unlocked phone to AT&T, since you would pay more for the phone. They will not offer you a lower service charge for BYO. They won't lower your rates after you pay back the subsidy.
On Oct 28, 2017, at 2:34 PM, Jim Saklad jimdoc@icloud.com [apple-iphone] wrote:
Yahoo screwed the formatting again…I believe that in the 10 years that iPhones have been sold, very few of the new models have been offered at introduction to be sold unlocked. The reason is the carriers have no hook in you to sign a new contract.The hook the carriers have in you is: "Do you want cell service with that?"I'm going with AT&T because I have 3 iPhones now on my account WITH AT&T, and have no adequate reason to change.The X-Phone I buy will go on the AT&T account in place of one already on it, and already paid off. NO money from this sale goes to AT&T; it is an arrangement between Apple and me (and that bank).And when it was, it was at a couple of hundred more, supposedly the cost of the subsidy from the carrier.The last iPhone I bought – the 6+, about 2½ years ago, I bought from the carrier, and my monthly bill showed EXACTLY the same itemization as before I bought it, PLUS a specific item in the form of a monthly payment for the UNsubsidized cost of the iPhone.
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