said by Time4aNAP:This "unlocked phones" misdirection is great if you're an AT&T shareholder, but not if you're a consumer. Surely we haven't forgotten the rampant cloning that led to these measures? Do you really want to waste more of your precious time culling through your monthly cellphone bill, looking for yet another bunch of clone calls, and spend hours settling the charges? Or have some crackhead steal your phone, complete with all of those numbers that you can't recall because they're in your phone? Do we
really want to go back to that?
Today cellphones are disposable items. If you switch carriers, they'll
give you a free phone. And old phones are recycled and put back into service for charitable causes. Even those few who are willing to spend exorbitant amounts of money on a phone tend to spend more and more money to have the latest model.
A choice that nobody aside from the AT&T shills is demanding is no choice at all, because all it does is lock you into one carrier--precisely the thing that it claims to be against. It's a ploy, a sham, a rip-off, a false dilemma, manipulation, an insult to your intelligence, a fraud, a red herring, a dirty trick...
You do need a nap. I think you are an insult to our intelligence. Do you work for one of the phone companies? I would not doubt it. Your smoke and mirror verbiage is so smoked up it leaves us all uttering... "HUH"? Offering unlocked phones is a sham that ultimately limits provider choice? HUH? 
