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To: slacker711 who wrote (133840)	5/18/2012 11:01:40 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 213177

Like I said earlier, I think the only way to decrease subsidies is to go whole hog. You need to decrease plan pricing to compensate for the increased upfront pricing and the only that works is you cut subsidies pretty drastically. A $100 increase in the upfront price and a subsequent $4 a month decrease in monthly costs isnt going to keep subs from moving to Sprint. It's a marketing department/profit decision, and I don't have access to their data. But both T and V are certainly talking about reducing subsidies... and I don't see any advantage to saber rattling unless they are trying to get Apple to lower the iPhone price.