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  • Yes you signed a contract. That contract has a certain value to it, and that value offsets the cost to them of the phone.

    On your side, the fact that this contract came with a subsidized phone made it worth it to you.

    What the carriers are saying is that this set of interrelated contracts won’t be available, and so these terms won’t be worthwhile to the parties involved, leading to a change in future contracts. Namely, the service contracts will have to be more expensive to them, which will make them less valuable to you, which will make them less likely to happen.



  • The FCC is the one taking away people’s freedom here, by preventing users from entering the kind of contract that T-Mobile and AT&T are offering.

    Consenting adults are happy to sign up on those terms, and the FCC is proposing to prevent that arrangement.

    The carriers make an excellent point that without that lock-in, the sale of the phone is less valuable to them. This means they won’t be able to offer the heavy subsidies on phones any longer.

    This is the government preventing contracts between consenting adults. The government is reducing freedom here.