But I know linking to a PDF will put some people off. It's a fairly short response this time as well.
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>handsets that are free or heavily discounted off the manufacturer's suggested retail price.
You do it by increasing contract prices and being able to collect a phone if you don't stay with the often 2-year contract for stuff like this. The final price is also much more expensive than buying outright.
This is a bit silly in am age where phone tech has plateaued and you can often get last year flagships for half the price at launch. Consumers don't need the newest phone at all.
>T-Mobile’s current unlocking policies also help T- Mobile combat handset theft and fraud by sophisticated, international criminal organizations.
All androids and iphones have built in find - my - phone features these days, as well as the ability to wipe remotely. Phones are one of the least useful things to try and steal these days as a result, up there with a credit card. You can still get info and pawn off a wiped phone, but I don't see what T-Mobile does to prevent that further.
>because the proposal would force providers to reduce the line-up of their most compelling handset offers. T
Sprint already was reducing lineups, even before the acquisition. And they don't really subsidize anymore. That's why I started buying my own phones. The T-Mobile store was just the Galaxy/IPhone store, featuring overly expensive otter cases.
>T-Mobile maintains that the Commission lacks authority to adopt the proposed rule
They really pulling off the Chevron defense (assumedly, it's in another document) with no hesitation, huh? I guess we'll see how that goes. I'm not going to pretend I know the full ramifications of how it will affect the FCC.
>however, a provider subject to FCC-imposed asymmetric regulation on handset unlocking seeks to modify its commitments
Sounds like a horrible loophole to extend the policy as long as possible. So, no. They don't even provide much of an argument for when and where and what should be modified.
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Clickbait or not, I'm not really liking the arguments either way.