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shmerl is offline shmerl
2014-11-23 , 21:21
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#585
Originally Posted by nodevel View Post
I know the situation with service providers is slowly changing, but it is still very different from Europe. For example, I don't know anyone (!) around me (not a small circle) who would have a cell phone from his/her service provider. Service providers do offer cell phones, but it is just not the habit for most of their customers to buy it from them.
I'd say not so slowly. A few factors affected this. First, LTE is becoming dominant very fast and CDMA is falling behind. Second, T-Mobile ditched device subsidies. And the last factor are universal LTE modems. More and more people just buy generic device on Amazon for instance and then just chose provider. So situation is now is very different than let's say two years ago.