Re: Contracts. Why?

In alt.cellular.t-mobile Grant Edwards <grante@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> So go buy one on eBay, newegg, or Craig's List for $30.  Nobody
> is forcing you to take a "free" phone and sign a contract.
> 

Sprint PCS does.  Try activating a used [ESN clear] phone on a new
account;
they won't do it without a contract.  Hell, just swapping phones with
Sprint
[even an insurance replacement ... any ESN change at all] resets the $150
credit you get towards a new phone every two years.  They have the
absolute
worst billing system and CRM that I have seen of any company!

-- 
Thomas T. Veldhouse

  America is the country where you buy a lifetime
  supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks.