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Why Are Cell Phones Locked To One Service Provider?

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Why Are Cell Phones Locked To One Service Provider?

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Consumers of wireless services are frequently surprised, and often annoyed, when they are told that they need to buy a new phone when they change service plans. That annoyance is justified — it’s a waste to abandon a perfectly good phone and it can be time consuming to re-program contacts into a new one. This makes it more costly to move to another company’s plan and it prevents the customer from buying any related services from another company. Increasingly, consumer advocates are questioning why wireless carriers should be allowed to use their power to limit the competitive options of their customers. Some customers are not so bothered because, after all, a free or low-cost new phone is usually included with a new plan. However, that new phone is the very reason that the companies generally require one- or two-year service contracts. In addition, the cost of all those new phones is a significant factor increasing the prices charged for monthly wireless service. Will Cell Phones Ever

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Anonymous

Network providers sell their phones at a discount to customers and in turn they bind us with a contract of using their network for a specific period of time! This way they make a lot of money! It is always better to unlock your phone to use it with different carriers, especially when you are in another   country you can use the local carrier to reduce the expences!!!Unlocking using codes is easy and safe. You can get the codes from any reliable online sites like Classicunlocking.com.This site offers simple steps to unlock and the codes are also affordable here!!!

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tunnel raj

HI cell phone are locked to network provider so that they cant be used in other network sim this is done mainly to retain their customer.You can remove the network lock using codes .I guide you to visit Unlocking4Free.com here they generate code to unlock some older mobile models from network lock at free of cost …..

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