The carriers will gladly give you a $1000 phone if you buy a $3000/year plan for the next 5 years. But hey you get that shiny new iPhone for almost nothing. I stopped buying phones through the carriers or phones associated with their plans as soon as I found a way to buy unlocked phones. On 2025-07-22 11:35, Karen Lewellen via Talk wrote:
Actually, did not the cRTC make it a requirement that all phones be sold unlocked from carriers in 2017 or so?
On Mon, 21 Jul 2025, James Knott via Talk wrote:
On 7/21/25 17:40, D. Hugh Redelmeier via Talk wrote:
My bias is to not get phones through carriers. Their goal is to get you to buy their service. I've been with Rogers (& Cantel) for over thirty years. My phones have never been tied to my service. I only bought one phone elsewhere. My current phone, a Google Pixel 6, I bought from Rogers almost 4 years ago. My plan was just to pay for it in full up front, but they had a deal that saved me a few $hundred by buying over time. My service details did not change at all when I bought that phone.
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