Senators intro wireless consumer protection bill, industry complains

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Jake Geiser @ Sep 19th 2007 2:10PM

I think, in all honesty, we should ditch all CDMA technology, go pure 3G in the states, and then make the unlocked phone market much larger.

See, this major misconception with ALL carriers is that people think that when they get a free phone and it breaks, they can come in and get a new one for free because thats what they got theirs for when they signed up. Where as, the person getting the new MotoRAZR2, or BlackBerry 8830 knows that there is a fairly large subsidy on the phone. Its that much large percentafe of people that dont really look at how much their subsidy is for their "free phone" that this bill is aimed towards because they feel that this service that were providing them should be at a contractual level, but they would never say that if they bought a car and signed a lease contract for 5 years, or their house gets a leak in the roof and the signed a mortgage for 30 years, they understand that it is an agreement to pay the bank x amount of dollars a month, so why can't they do the same for a two year agreement where they got a substantial discount on a phone?

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