On Tue, 05-Sep-2006 at 15:50:30 -0600, Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> magic key it's looking for (like Sasktel, Fido, etc). This way they can
> sell you a phone for way below the MSRP, but ensure that it's pretty
> useless to you if you want to break the contract and go somewhere else.
> Given that they usually have "pay us $20 x # months remaining" clauses
> in the contract, this is a pretty dickish thing to do.
It's not that bad, if they sell the phone far enough below its actual
price (which they generally do). With GSM, you also have the option to
decide that you don't like the practice, and go out and buy a phone from
another source, and simply put your Rogers SIM card in it. (I actually
did this with my Treo, because I didn't feel that Rogers was giving me
enough of a discount to be worthwhile buying it from them.)
Received on Tue Sep 5 15:58:13 2006
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