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To: kech who wrote (143231)	7/4/2006 12:27:37 AM
From: seti	Respond to of 152472

But many of the arguments for sim card use in the previous discussion were for people who didn't want to have a contract-right? It would behove you to read the discussion. If you want to bring your own phone to Sprint network, you can't because they won't allow it unless it has their logo. Even if you could (possibly with Verizon), your subscription fees already have a built-in markup to subsidize those people who are ignorant enough to think the carrier is doing them a favor. You wind up paying twice. The alleged $150 subsidy goes towards the retail price of the phone. So that $150 phone you think you are getting for "free" is cost much less at wholesale. Sometimes features on these "wonderful" carrier supplied phones are disabled so you have to pay the carrier to get pictures/music into or out of the phone. The list of horrors and backwardness goes on.