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By: Rico Mossesgeld

Rico Mossesgeld — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:31:38 +0000

Yeah, I guess Nokia has to give a bit. What’s weird though is that in other countries, they’ve got no problems subsidizing phones—even their high-end models—through carrier plans.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:49:06 +0000

Well, if Nokia wants any chance in USA market they must accept that here the CARRIER is king. USA wireless customers are far too accustomed to the subsidized devices to ever buy in to Nokia’s “open” with it’s high cost of entry. People just aren’t going to buy $600 or $800 PHONES! So Nokia has obviously made the business decision that USA market is not important to their smartphone business.
Maybe this all changes when all networks are LTE and all devices work on any network, but until that is ubiquitous they have to play the carrier’s games or they will have no market share.

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