They can make the label, but not the phone.
Additionally their competitors has to approve of the
phones roaming in their networks, overlapping or
separate, internationally,etc.
That is the force "connecting operators".
There has been many attempts at "city phones", etc but
there is no "common sense nor business case" in it.
It will obviously take a lot of money for a company
like Nokia to set up a special factory, product line,
testing equipment, logistics of components, documentation,
version handling, service,etc compared to global
models.
Small players might like that niche market, but exactly
because of that small market, they will not be able
to compete.
Ilmarinen
To even just try to sell with ones own plastic covers
snapped on would cause extra costs, as well as taking
responsibility for snapping them on correctly,
packaging, warranties,inventories,etc.
(the snip-snap mechanism is actually very demanding
on quality of plastic,etc)
Compare to just ordering from a very large pool of
similar, standard products. |
