| I think T-Mobile has the fairest approach T-Mobile now offers a discount on the monthly rates for those who bring their own phones or buy them outright in-store.
This just goes to prove that carriers (including mightly Verizon) already includes the price of the phone subsidy into their monthly rates. Both the MSRP of the hardware and the ETF's are extremely overly inflated.
I'm sure there are some who scammed Verizon, but not to the point of causing irreparable harm. Verizon could simply do away with the BOGO or reduce the ETF after 6 months back to regular rates but they don't.
Verizon, like all the carriers, is always trying to find ways to get more and more revenue. They already know they're among the most expensive and don't want to look bad by raising the MRC so instead they'll just scoop up some more revenue by sticking fat ETF's to those who churn. |
