Sentences with phrase «from subsidizing phone»

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The carriers didn't make a profit on the old, subsidized phone plans, so they've benefitted from shifting the expense onto customers directly.

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).

The purchase of a phone, either at full retail or subsidized, does not constitute a guarantee from T - Mobile that the device will be updated.

Cellphone companies, by contrast, subsidize the sale of phones but profit from monthly service charges.

T - Mobile doesn't sell subsidized devices like a traditional carrier — they'll sell you a new smartphone on an installment plan if you like, effectively decoupling the price of the phone from the price of the monthly service.

Carrier pricing will certainly be less on contract, but the Nexus 6 marks the end of «subsidized» Nexus phones sold directly from Google.

But carriers have since moved away from contracts and the subsidized phones that came with them.