What a load of crap. This is why people hate cell phone companies. Even the carrier rated to have the best service in the US, T-Mobile, has marginal customer service and a terrible offering of phones. The carriers complain that they have to subsidize phones and spend zillions on R&D and network buildouts for 3G and then have trouble making a return on it all. Its not because people don't want the services or can't afford high end handsets (Apple doesn't subsidize iPods, afterall), its because of crap like this. Why should anyone plunk down a ton of money and then face bad service and restrictive terms? They shouldn't.
I hope Apple cleans everyone's clocks with the iPhone and can break the quadropoly that the 4 big carriers have and instead let consumers buy the handset they want and run it on any network with the services they want a la carte and without ridiculous contracts.
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What a load of crap. This is why people hate cell phone companies. Even the carrier rated to have the best service in the US, T-Mobile, has marginal customer service and a terrible offering of phones. The carriers complain that they have to subsidize phones and spend zillions on R&D and network buildouts for 3G and then have trouble making a return on it all. Its not because people don't want the services or can't afford high end handsets (Apple doesn't subsidize iPods, afterall), its because of crap like this. Why should anyone plunk down a ton of money and then face bad service and restrictive terms? They shouldn't.
I hope Apple cleans everyone's clocks with the iPhone and can break the quadropoly that the 4 big carriers have and instead let consumers buy the handset they want and run it on any network with the services they want a la carte and without ridiculous contracts.