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| reply to Matt
Re: Increased ETF justified Yes, they make a profit from 2 years worth of service... but ETF stands for "early termination fee"..... Aka canceling early. The fee ensures that they don't lose money if you break your contract.
To the person who said that the iPhone only costs $100 to make... Here an article says the the "pure manufacturing costs" are almost $180. »mytriniphone.com/blog/2009/06/co···3gs-179/
Now factor in the fact that they have to ship the phone, advertise the phone, deliver it to you etc.... then someone has to take care of your order... there has to be a staff to support you... thousands of towers which cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars each... billions of dollars in spectrum... you get the point.
Anyone getting a high end smartphone worth $400-$600 and only paying $100-$200 then complaining that it's ridiculous for them to actually want to be paid for the phone if you cancel early obviously doesn't understand how subsidizing works in the first place. Like someone else said, it should go down a little each month. |
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join:2005-03-19 | we are talking about the cost of the device. not the cost of service. the cost of service would take into account the spectrum, towers, customer service, etc.
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| reply to jcremin
said by jcremin :
Yes, they make a profit from 2 years worth of service... but ETF stands for "early termination fee"..... Aka canceling early.
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of your order... there has to be a staff to support you... thousands of towers which cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars each... billions of dollars in spectrum... you get the point.
That makes no sense. If you cancel early, they don't have to provide you with customer support. They need less network capacity because you're not a customer. Those can be used to support another customer and they don't have to hire more CS, etc. when they get a new customer. So that is irrelevant to the ETF discussion. |
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