Sentences with phrase «for subsidized phones»

The data only measured full - price phones over time and did not include prices for subsidized phones made cheaper by carrier contracts.

This data is for full - price phones, and does not include prices for subsidized phones made cheaper by carrier contracts — a practice that has largely disappeared.

Typically the SIM lock is in exchange for a subsidized phone (so you can't buy a cheap phone on one carrier then switch over an use another before you've paid back the subsidy over the life of your contract).

Not exact matches

Each phone is available at its full price, or a subsidized one through a carrier or company, so be sure to shop around for the best deal.

The opportunity arises because the big four U.S. wireless carriers, led initially by T - Mobile, have been weaning their customers off of subsidized phones and trying to get everyone to pay for phones in full — in return for somewhat lower monthly service charges.

So the aim was not only to provide basic infrastructure needs freely or at subsidized prices, but to prevent private owners from erecting tollbooths on roads and charging monopoly prices for power, phone systems (as in Telmex in Mexico or similar phone monopolies in the post-Soviet kleptocracies).

In the wake of Verizon's newly announced decision to finally scrap subsidized phones and two - year contracts, AT&T follows suit with a new set of Mobile Share Value plans that cuts down the price of most plans while offering more data for some.

Moreover, not only does a la carte junk food pose a nutritional issue, it inadvertently creates a civil rights issue when only kids with money in their pockets can get the «cool food,» and needy kids are afraid to stand in line for the federally subsidized meal lest their pictures be snapped on cell phones and posted on Facebook to shame them for their lower economic status.

In the next year, these types of display screens will catch on and companies like Kobo might see the benefits to offering mobile phone companies a subsidized case for new activations.

For years, we've been hearing whispers that Google was planning to launch phones or tablets fully subsidized by advertising.

In North America where carriers will subsidize the cost of your phone purchase by signing a contract, we'd go for the Torch 9860 over the Curve 9380 every day of the week.

I'm sick of purchasing subsidized smart phones for $ 400 to find that ports are turned off or front facing cameras (ala Tytn) are pulled out.

Working together, the companies will try to offer the e-reader at a subsidized price if users pay for a multi-year content agreement, similar to mobile phone contracts, she said.

We've seen a similar approach with phones in the U.S. for years: Carriers subsidize the hardware in return for a lock - in of service.

This is something that is more important outside the U.S. and I don't see this phone appealing to many here since we get better subsidized phones for free.

The iPhone prices listed here assume that you're getting subsidized two - year contract, with the discounted prices that come with that, rather than paying full retail price for the phone.

Again, I was guaranteed that I could get a phone for the subsidized price and continue my current contract even after all of the new plans have taken effect.

A lot of phones are subsidized and also charge heavily for internet access.

Interestingly enough, XBOX 360 and Windows Phone 7, both Microsoft products will continue to offer Last.fm for free, the cost being subsidized by Microsoft.

It's an irony that costs consumers hundreds of dollars as more people decide to buy a less expensive, subsidized phone with higher monthly fees on a two - year contract, instead of a prepaid phone plan that requires paying the full price for the cellphone but has lower monthly rates and no contract.

(The 4 is available for the subsidized price of $ 0.99 at mobile phone stores and Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, recently mentioned the plan to continue this practice in China's growing cell phone market.)

Gone are the days when a mobile carrier will subsidize the cost of a phone in exchange for a locked - in contract.

The refurbished Galaxy SIII costs $ 200, which may seem steep for a previous - generation device, but like other prepaid mobile virtual network operators, TextNow isn't subsidizing the phone, which keeps its service costs low.

In the past, upgrading has been easy, and pretty cheap: sell the old phone to Gazelle and get $ 170 - $ 200 for it, then pay AT&T $ 200 for the new phone, because the rest of it was subsidized by the grandfathered unlimited plan (and thus, since the plan price is the same whether the phone is paid off or not, it didn't make sense to * not * upgrade every two years).

Since mobile providers are not subsidizing the phones now and are rather inexpensive for cell and data service, 999.99 is hardly a ripoff for the amazing technology you get in the iPhone X. Well done Apple.

In some cases phone carriers may subsidize prices in return for the phone being locked to their network.

In order to keep the price people pay for the phone low and competitive with rivals, Sprint would be subsidizing the cost of each phone to the tune of about $ 500, which would take a long time to recoup even at the high monthly fees iPhone users pay.