This is one area that really needs to change.
In Europe you buy a phone, not cell phone service. Incoming calls are free.
My brother is stationed over there right now. He was a little
worried about getting a cell phone while over there. Once he got
there a friend of his had a handful of phones to offer him. All he
has to do is get a SIM card and recharge it every now and then and he is fine.
Variety of reasons for it.
1.) Over here remember most cell companies are off shoots of Bell
phone companies. Cells are a huge source of revenue and they want to
squeeze every penny out of it. Also they make no money on
handsets. Most are sold at a lose to entice you to the
company. (Cell companies that are co-owned by landline companies are
sources of revenue while the land-line usually is not nearly as profitable.)
2.) European cell companies (and many nations) are usually
government owned and controlled monopolies. They make money no matter what.
There are plenty more that I am not so up on, but it is a reality,
domestic companies want to shield you from using services that may
not be profitable to them so they disable and control what you can
and cant do with your cell phone. Other nations control the phone
service so they are not as profit conscious and allow other services
to be used.
Stewart
At 08:34 AM 7/11/2007, you wrote:
AT$T paid apple for the being able to offer the iPhone. As far as carriers
being eager to get the iPhone, why did verizon pass on it? Also some of the
features offered on the iPhone other carriers refuse to enable on their
phones. Verizon for one is notorious for turning off the capabilities of
the phones they offer. Apple goes with one carrier for the same reason OS X
only runs on one standard piece of hardware, they can control the
environment better and apparently give better service. Imagine the iPhone
on three or four carriers, not all carriers would let you do the same things
so Apple would have to create websites for each carrier detailing each
carriers service for the iPhone instead of one clear iPhone page on the
apple site.
Mike
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prince of Peace
Ozark, AL SL 82
************************************************************************
* ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <==
* ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <==
* Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name
* Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST
* Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L
* New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress
* Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
************************************************************************
* List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/
* RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml
* Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived
************************************************************************
