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Article #50Re: No Activation Required at Best Buy?
From: t.r
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 17:30
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 17:30
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well most of the world uses GSM not CDMA so what would u want to do with a unlocked CDMA phone???? there is no place to insert or remove a sim card on a cdma phone unlike GSM. u guys r so lost! i was on sprint now i am on gsm. very useful if u travel alot. but i u r in the usa most of the time - stick to sprint. although their phones SUCK their plans are sweet On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 19:42:35 -0500, Ronald Kushner <ron@glis.net> wrote: > > >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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