Sentences with phrase «subsidized phones made»

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.

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Some of these phones are very cheap, and Amazon is making a small selection of great budget devices even cheaper with Amazon Prime Exclusive phones, which are subsidized with advertisements.

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

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).

$ 200 on a subsidized phone, even if means paying more down the line, makes more sense to a lot of people.

TELUS, Videotron, Rogers, Fido, Bell and Virgin are now offering the LG - made Nexus phone subsidized and on - contract, with prices...