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To: pyslent who wrote (17166)	3/10/2012 2:57:22 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

Oh please... in Spain were there are no subsidies the iPhone is getting spanked, eradicated and destroyed. Italy the same. France the same, Germany the same. Every country that does not use subsidies Android is growing by leaps and bounds and has 60-80%... and growing... while POS iJUNK gets pulverized to dust... LMFAO... too funny... subsidies is the life blood to crApple... no subsidies and crApple PPS gets cut in HALF overnight...

To: pyslent who wrote (17166)	3/10/2012 3:07:36 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

>>> I'm not sure carriers would benefit from the loss of handset subsidies, anyway. They would either have to come up with other ways to incentivize customers to sign contracts (eg. By offering them lower monthly rates), or fight tooth and nail to retain non-contract subs every month. That's garbage. When you equate every carrier to offering the same subsidies like Sprint Verizon and AT&T are offering you end up losing any advantage to sign new customers. You end up with a new status quo to sign new customers except that now your losses have accelerated and you are in a new faster track to bankruptcy... Sprint's LTE is not free... they have costs accelerating out of the wazoo.. subsidy costs... network costs... advertising costs... yet all 3, Verizon, Sprint and AT&T have no better advantage to attract new customers.