voipdabbler
join:2006-04-27
Kalispell, MT
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Re: Cell service providers have pulled on Nokia's puppet strings
Actually, most of Nokia's middle and high-end phones are sold unlocked and aren't discounted by carriers; these models represent a significant portion of their annual sales. North America has never been a large market for them since their phones are GSM and the GSM foot print in North American, especially the US, has never been large. (It won't expand either; AT&T and TM are only in large urban markets and will never expand their GSM networks to smaller cities or rural areas--those will remain CDMA.) I suspect that it's more likely due to the fact that VOIP still primarily remains a service for early adopters, especially mobile VOIP. I'm sorry to see them take a step backwards, but they're still retaining WIFI for now so as long as software developers like Fring keep producing VOIP software solutions for the Nokia OS, customers will retain VOIP capabilities. |
