Thread: Why N900 failed on consumer market ?
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2010-11-26 , 07:14
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Originally Posted by kureyon View Post
Why? Doesn't the contract already provide enough safeguards for the operator? By signing the contract you have already committed to paying for cost of the phone and service for the term of the contract. Why the hell should they care if you choose to use different sim card?
I already explained that in detail, so I don't think repeating it would do any good. But again: The fixed monthly fees usually just aren't enough to make the whole deal profitable for the carrier. With most contracts the average monthly bill is a lot higher than the fixed costs. If a consumer who pays, say, €50-€70 per months could simply change his sim card, they'd be left with a monthly bill of €20 and another carrier would earn the remaining €30-€50.

Again, I don't see why we're even discussing this. Free phones are locked phones. Locking the phone is an additional step in the chain that costs money and that carriers would gladly avoid if they could.
 

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