 PacketeersPremium
join:2005-06-18
Forest Hills, NY
kudos:1
 ·Time Warner Cable
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| do away with contracts altogether I think cell phone contracts are all nonsense by now.
"you get a $400 phone for $99 if you sign for 2 years"
just sell use the damn phone for it's true value, $149.
and provide service Monthly just like Satellite TV does.
also, just sell the service, let us pick the phone.
I hate having to switch carriers just because they
don't support a phone I want to use.
my poor Uncle blinded by Macular Degeneration has to
pay double per Month just to get a crappy phone with
large buttons? that's just ridiculous.
»www.jitterbug.com/Phones.aspx |
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 odinb
join:2001-11-26
Frisco, TX
1 edit | Well, you can actually pick your phone if you choose a carrier that uses the international standard for cellphones called GSM, and then swap carriers without having to swap the phone!!
An added advantage is you can then get a non-branded (read non -crippled on features to nickel-and-dime you), non locked (to one carrier) phone!! The Verizon-branded-phones are a great examples of crippled phones.
Just go here: »www.hi-mobile.net/
This is what I do, and I am not locked into any specific network, and can pop a prepaid-SIM into the phone whenever I travel internationally to avoid extortion rates on roaming-fees! |
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | The problem in American contracts is the price of the "free" phone is already built into the bloated contract fees. So if you don't get it "free/discounted" from the carrier, you end up paying for it twice, every two years.  |
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odinb
join:2001-11-26
Frisco, TX | For me it is still worth it to not have to deal with shortcomings of functionality of the phone due to crippling and branding where features are removed or the phone is locked to a provider and or network.. |
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Actually Satellite (Directv) does lock you in a 2 year contract with ETF. |
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