Why does T-Mobile in the UK give away awsome phones FREE, but not here (EXAMPLE)
Here is a link (below) to if you sign up on a 26 pound ($41.60 USD) plan you get all kinds of cool phones for FREE. You can get the Samsung D500, Razor, the new Moto V635...IN FACT EVERY SIMGLE PHONE THEY HAVE IS FREE, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF PDAS.... why is that? Furthermore, why can't they do that here?
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Thats because GSM is outdated in Europe, the are on WCDMA-True 3G technology,what they use her in NA anerica is that tech. GSM, if you look around remember when people switched from digital to gsm the phones for TDMA were cheap as dirt?
Thats because it was an older outdated tech. well they still use it, but the phones they produce in Europe are all W-CDMA, so thats where you spend real bucks on, the GSM phones wer produced there years ago, and are that cheap for that reason, the same example is here in the Good Ol USA, the digital phones are still around, and are dirt cheap,because its an old outdated tsch, but here in North Aerica, GSM is new, so you pay more for that tech.
Thats because it was an older outdated tech. well they still use it, but the phones they produce in Europe are all W-CDMA, so thats where you spend real bucks on, the GSM phones wer produced there years ago, and are that cheap for that reason, the same example is here in the Good Ol USA, the digital phones are still around, and are dirt cheap,because its an old outdated tsch, but here in North Aerica, GSM is new, so you pay more for that tech.
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Mr.PIR said:
Thats because GSM is outdated in Europe, the are on WCDMA-True 3G technology,what they use her in NA anerica is that tech. GSM, if you look around remember when people switched from digital to gsm the phones for TDMA were cheap as dirt?
Thats because it was an older outdated tech. well they still use it, but the phones they produce in Europe are all W-CDMA, so thats where you spend real bucks on, the GSM phones wer produced there years ago, and are that cheap for that reason, the same example is here in the Good Ol USA, the digital phones are still around, and are dirt cheap,because its an old outdated tsch, but here in North Aerica, GSM is new, so you pay more for that tech.
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zjc2a said:...Mr.PIR said:
Thats because GSM is outdated in Europe, the are on WCDMA-True 3G technology,what they use her in NA anerica is that tech. GSM, if you look around remember when people switched from digital to gsm the phones for TDMA were cheap as dirt?
Thats because it was an older outdated tech. well they still use it, but the phones they produce in Europe are all W-CDMA, so thats where you spend real bucks on, the GSM phones wer produced there years ago, and are that cheap for that reason, the same example is here in the Good Ol USA, the digital phones are still around, and are dirt cheap,because its an old outdated tsch, but here in North Aerica, GSM is new, so you pay more for that tech
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one of two things... 1) three letters: F C C. The FCC regulates every phone that comes to the US. they dont approve it, we dont get it. 2) the phone may be tested here but may just not work well on our 1900mhz band
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in response to my last post, im sorry. i mis-read and did not see the FREE part. i thought you were asking about us getting phones in general. sorry
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justinwilliams said: "...if you sign up on a 26 pound ($41.60 USD) plan you get all kinds of cool phones for FREE."
Maybe because for $40 per month you get free voicemail, free customer service calls and exactly 200 anytime minutes, no free weekends, no Mobile-to-Mobile, nothing. Go over your 200 minutes and it costs you .16 per minute to call other T-Mobile phones in the UK and .40 per minute to call anyone else. You also get to pay .56 per MMS, .16 per SMS, and .32 per international SMS. and guess what you get to pay per kb for GPRS use too. You also get the fun of an 18 month contract. So do you want to pay for the phone up front (e.g. unlocked from a resellar at retail) or pay even more over time ...
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also...consider the fact that the maintenance cost on a national wireless network in the U.K. is considerably less than it is here in the U.S.A. since it is a much smaller country with considerably less geographic variation. So operating costs would be less, allowing them to take a greater loss on the phone sale.
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