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 SSidlovOther Things On My MindPremium
join:2000-03-03
Pompton Lakes, NJ
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| Not Exclusive? Pay $$$$ for the phone! We can all bemoan the inability to have the iPhone or other kewl electronic piece of junk on our favorite network but without exclusive contracts, and phones to partially differentiate the carriers, we are all going to be paying $500 and up for the phone of our choice.
Maybe this is what is needed. It would go something like this, Apple sells the iPhone to any carrier for $600 (to cover costs and the loss of the contract money + the percentage of the data plan they are getting making $400 to cover expenses/profit), they (the carrier) sells it to you for $1200 (100% markup is not unusual in electronics). They make $600 up front, plus the voice/data/message plan (at whatever cost point they sell it at, $5/mo or $99/mo). The carriers are MORE PROFITABLE since they no longer have to subsidize the phones and get a nice chunk of money up front.
This will also prevent the griping about not being able to get a new iPhone for 99 cents and a new contract. Maybe then the phones of all types will be better made, have better OS on them, etc. and you'll keep them for more than 2 years.
Why doesn't everyone check out the prices of the UNLOCKED phones already on the market? GSM phones CAN be purchased world wide without a carrier's involvement, the pricing is SKY HIGH. With the exception of the iPhone most phones are sold by the mfgr's at a small margin.
MAYBE the carriers will compete more on prices for the voice/data/messaging - but I doubt it, there's only a few hundred dollars difference a year between any of them, and the non-GSM carriers are not 'world' phone capable (except for a few special models), meaning the cell phone mfgr's will want to have the broadest market to sell to.
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| im going to have to disagree with that statement... in the areas of NY including upstate and the metro nyc area at&t has had poor results all along after the iphone came out. they had a pretty decent network until the iphone. i had a cingular 8525 when the iphone came out and day one the network crashed for weeks in albany and even when i went to nyc. you couldnt call tech support because the lines were so busy because everyone was having DATA/VOICE and TXT issues. my phone would tell me that the data network was down, and that my last text message could not be sent. phone calls were dropped multiple times and these problems still exist going into the 3rd generation of iphone. i have tried many more phones also and they all have the same problem. at&t's backbone sucks in the northeast and the CSR's will tell you that.
the iphone is a cool device, just not implemented very well. when LTE comes out and ATT&VERIZON roam on each other the iphone will be great because it can roam on both networks and balance the strain on the networks.
i have many friends with the iphones and i love to watch them drop calls and have failed txt messages. because my verizon phone never does that.. the inauguration for obama in january i went with the local school as a chaperone. at&t had no voice/data or txt coverage after 11am. the network crashed completely. i was on the web, sending picture messages to flickr, uploading videos to youtube and texting all the kids in my group [who thankfully had verizon] to keep track of everyone. never one dropped call or failed txt.
i live in a rural area, i have 0 bars with at&t and 4/4 with verizon. plus BROADBAND ACCESS data Rev. A in my area.. wait u mean they put 3.5G services in rural areas? yes verizon does... at&t ahahahahahah. thats what they say when you ask them about even 2.5G/3G services in a rural area... | |
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join:2005-12-14
Glendale, CA
kudos:1 | i've got verizon and tmobile. i've had sprint also, tmobile and att suck in LA, as far as others who i've spoken to, the benefit of tmobile and the 8900 i have is UMA, wifi phone calls. i've converted so many people over from ATT (gsm) to verizon and they now admit that they regret not doing it sooner.
gsm may be better in other area's but NOT IN the valley/LA.
i'm sitting 3 feet from the window and i have no reception on tmobile, admit it could be the 8900, i also had the older curve titanium with tmo and it wouldn't work, vzw has full reception... VZW works in the garage, TMO doesn't, ATT doesn't either when i look at my friends iphone
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