How is a Smartphone like beer? The answer is that you never own it; you just rent it.
The announcement that Sprint was eliminating two-year contracts and going to a straight leasing model feels like the wireless operators are returning to the model that the wire line companies had to abandon -- or at least offer alternatives -- after the Carterfone decision (which manually connected a two-way radio system to a telephone system, allowing someone on the radio to talk to someone on the phone).
The funny thing is, this is in response to the regulators’ goals of enabling competitive markets’ device markets.
Sprint joins T-Mobile and Verizon in this practice, which may indicate that there is a real shift of power to the smartphone manufacturers...Read More
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