Comment on FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days

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skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

okay but you end up paying more - if it was just normal data plan and cost of phone it would be even, but there’s also something paid to middleman that provides something that is effectively credit and extortion services like simlock and some legal thingies, it might have smaller downpayment but it’s not this, see also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

this is on top of various security and privacy implications of using a phone which you can’t legally reflash

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