Or, what we could have the FCC do is make sure that all the carriers cannot lock any phones to their service. Then we buy the phone from say target walk in to verizon and pick a plan. Then: 1 - smart phones will free fall in price making them less than the subsidized prices faster. 2 - The carriers become what they should be - dumb pipes. Focus on speed and reliability rather than weak ass crap like vcast. 3 - No etf's as the phones are separate from the plans 4 - the customer has the power as we can simply do month to month as a contract is not needed since we don't need a subsidized phone from the carrier.
Force the phone to be separated from the carrier and the customer will then have the power of the market on their side.
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Or, what we could have the FCC do is make sure that all the carriers cannot lock any phones to their service. Then we buy the phone from say target walk in to verizon and pick a plan. Then:
1 - smart phones will free fall in price making them less than the subsidized prices faster.
2 - The carriers become what they should be - dumb pipes. Focus on speed and reliability rather than weak ass crap like vcast.
3 - No etf's as the phones are separate from the plans
4 - the customer has the power as we can simply do month to month as a contract is not needed since we don't need a subsidized phone from the carrier.
Force the phone to be separated from the carrier and the customer will then have the power of the market on their side.