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Article #45Re: No Activation Required at Best Buy?
From: Ronald Kushner
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 00:42
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 00:42
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noemail wrote: > > "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <nobody@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:3decbcaa$0$4471$a1866201@newsreader.visi.com... > > I suspect that for most GSM phones, you are correct. They are much > cheaper > > to make than CDMA phones. However, with Sprint, Verizon and a few others, > I > > think subsidization is still a very real concept. > > > > Tom Veldhouse > > > > Sprint phones are not subsidized. Any customer, whether new or existing, > can go to any store and buy a sprint phone for the advertised price. Sprint > does offer rebates for new customers tho'. Sprint does subsidize the phones. They are locked and Sprint generally won't give you the MSL unless you social engineer it out of them. With the software loads on the Sprint phones extra NAMs are disabled and the software has been crippled to Sprint's specs. -Ron
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