Thread: Heads Up AT&T now recognizing The N9 as a smartphone.
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imaginaryenemy is offline imaginaryenemy
2013-09-04 , 18:37
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Originally Posted by woody14619 View Post
Not entirely true. They do offer service contracts, it's just bundled/pitched a different way. You can in fact get a phone up-front without a high cost with a contract. They have to offer that, or they'd get no new customers since the US market is used to having subsidized phone.
You can get a phone with very little up front and simply pay off the remainder of the cost of the phone over a two year period. HOWEVER, if you pay off the phone before that period, the 'contract' is null and void. Phone cost is 100% paid by the consumer now. No discount and no subsidizing whatsoever.