Thread: Why N900 failed on consumer market ?
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kureyon is offline kureyon
2010-11-26 , 10:32
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#153
Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
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.
Huh? If a customer can simply walk out of a contract then it's not a contract, or the operator isn't doing enough to enforce it? All contracts for "free" phones that I've seen work something like this:

You agree to a monthly fee of $XX for a period of YY months. In return you'll get the phone for "free" and NN "free" minutes of talk time and MM "free" SMS etc. Once you've committed to the contract then you have to pay up whether or not you use the phone and/or sim (operator couldn't care less) until contract period is up.
Now tell me again why should the operator care what sim you use in the phone?