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The only losers here may be the small carriers, ironically, as they would have poorer coverage, and fewer financial resources to subsidize handsets to compete with big red and big blue.]]>Jul 7th 2009 8:26AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/07/department-of-justice-casually-looking-into-abuses-of-power-by-b/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/07/department-of-justice-casually-looking-into-abuses-of-power-by-b/
The phone carriers only really compete nowadays with what price subsidized phones they have on their networks and at what price. IMO, they don't compete at all with their network or coverage (although they pretend to). I'm still waving my phone around and getting lousy signal strength like I was 15 years ago. ]]>Jul 7th 2009 9:48AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/07/department-of-justice-casually-looking-into-abuses-of-power-by-b/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/07/department-of-justice-casually-looking-into-abuses-of-power-by-b/Jul 7th 2009 10:20AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/07/department-of-justice-casually-looking-into-abuses-of-power-by-b/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/07/department-of-justice-casually-looking-into-abuses-of-power-by-b/
Live and learn people, and try not to screw yourself over by repeating mistakes already made by others.

On the other hand, oh yeah, the decision makers still make millions in "bonuses" even while the company and all the employees they screwed goes under so why should they care. ]]>Jul 7th 2009 10:51AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/07/department-of-justice-casually-looking-into-abuses-of-power-by-b/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/07/department-of-justice-casually-looking-into-abuses-of-power-by-b/
on top of that, i really wish this one senator would hurry and start looking at the cell phone providers, and how they're basically colluding w/ one another double SMS rates (all around the same time) for a feature that effectively costs them nothing.
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Sure they've made a huge push into changing their customer service (which was consistently ranked last out of the big 4 every quarter for about the last two years) but they are by far and away the furthest from being a dominant carrier. One big thing thats still continues to stop them, CDMA and a crappy selection of handsets. I shouldn't even have to bring up the many versions of phones that release on the big 4, only to have their CDMA versions effectively neutered. ]]>Jul 8th 2009 7:03AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/07/department-of-justice-casually-looking-into-abuses-of-power-by-b/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/07/department-of-justice-casually-looking-into-abuses-of-power-by-b/Jul 8th 2009 12:20PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/07/department-of-justice-casually-looking-into-abuses-of-power-by-b/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/07/department-of-justice-casually-looking-into-abuses-of-power-by-b/Jul 8th 2009 11:20AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/07/department-of-justice-casually-looking-into-abuses-of-power-by-b/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/07/department-of-justice-casually-looking-into-abuses-of-power-by-b/Jul 7th 2009 4:54PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/07/department-of-justice-casually-looking-into-abuses-of-power-by-b/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/07/department-of-justice-casually-looking-into-abuses-of-power-by-b/Jul 8th 2009 1:50AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/07/department-of-justice-casually-looking-into-abuses-of-power-by-b/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/07/department-of-justice-casually-looking-into-abuses-of-power-by-b/
Getting rid of the subsidized phone would not make our phones more expensive, it would likely end up making all phones cheaper, and having fewer but much better quality phones to choose from.

If you look at the retail price of most of the phones that the carriers sell, you can see that they're ridiculous. No one in their right mind would pay that price. But when we're told that that's the price and we can get 250.00 off if we sign a 2yr contract, we think we're getting a deal (perceived).
There is no way that the phone manufacturer's are going to be able to sell the same phones at their MSRP. The price of all of theses phones would suddenly become much more realistic as people began to hang on to their current phone because it still worked and they didn't see anything worth upgradeing to for $500-800 extra
Bring it on I can't wait.
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