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.
Not exact matches
In the US, MVNOs
like Ting started challenging conventions
like subsidized devices and contracts, overpriced unlimited and plans that dictate fixed levels of voice, data and text.
I'd be jumping for joy if Nokia made a
device like that and Tmo actually considered
Subsidizing it.
One way this could ultimately happen is if wireless providers
like Verizon
subsidize the
devices and sell them in their stores, as they do with the inexpensive laptops called netbooks.
An arrangement
like that would
subsidize the heavy cost of the
device, and with a price of almost $ 800 it's not hard to see why that would make sense.
Apple has always played in the high - end and will have major challenges competing with Samsung and the overall Google and China ecosystems because Apple DOES N'T
LIKE to make cheaper
devices, and because their vertical development costs can only be
subsidized across their own
devices.
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.