Re: Folklore

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <tFwOi.818$Pv2.326@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net>,
Steven Lichter  <diespammers@ikillspammers.com> wrote:

> All Cell phone with the exception of GSM and the older analog phone are 
> set to run on one provider only,

A lot of GSM phones are sold locked to one provider only.  For an extra
fee, you can later have the phone unlocked if you wish.  Of course
there are also various hacks to unlock several locked phone models.

And for our still older NMT mobile phones: they weren't locked up
to one provider.  No need for that, there WAS only one single provider
so the users had no choice!


> the main reason is that you get the phone a lot cheaper or free for
> agreeing to use that provider, I see nothing wrong with that.

I bought three phones like that about a year ago: one for my wife, one
for my daughter, and an extra for myself.  Interestingly and
incredibly, these phones weren't locked up to one provider but were
free to use for any provider.  However, I had to subscribe to one
partticular provider for one year for each of the three phones.  I
selected the cheapest possible subscriptions and never used them - and
I ended up getting the phones much cheaper than the regular price,
including the cost for the subscriptions I didn't use!

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