It makes me laugh that this is just happening now in the US. I have Rogers in Canada and it has been pro rated since before I originally got a phone some 4 years ago now. $20/month remaining on contract to a max of $200. Oh and you gotta love how we're getting some phones before Cingular (W810, V3i among others) now
Why are these models only appearing on here now? Like "me" said, the carabiner model has been out for a long time now at The Source here in Canada also, the splash proof units have been out since just before the new year in our stores as well ... must be a slow news day
badonkadonk - I don't think you quite caught where I was going with my post. While I see where you're coming from on the argument of jurisdiction, the fact of the matter is ... every time a Blackberry is sold in the US it is a leakage for the American economy (macroeconomics 101), money earned and then spent in the US makes its way out of the US and into Canadian hands. The government wants the courts to rule against RIM. why? Every penny that RIM must hand over to NTP is an injection back into the economy, its simply recovering as much of that leakage as it can, and when you are in debt as much as the US is, you want every penny. The government doesn't care if blackberry service shuts down, theirs will still work and to them thats all that matters. If RIM was American we wouldn't be having this conversation.
this sounds alot like the american courts upset that a CANADIAN company is the producer and thus benefactor of such a wonderful, efficient piece of equipment. if an american company made the blackberry this case would have been thrown out the day it was introduced.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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why is this news?