Holy cow, Torch is now a FREE phone (Amazon ATT)
- Reposting this off Slickdeals in case people are interested:
Was looking to pick up a phone for the wifey and look what I saw....Torch is now FREE at AW
That was quick!
AmazonWireless: BlackBerry Torch 9800 Phone (AT&T)
Anyone else thinking about picking one of these up at this price?Last edited by jastevenson; 11-02-10 at 01:23 PM.
11-02-10 01:15 PMLike 0 -
- Reposting this off Slickdeals in case people are interested:
Was looking to pick up a phone for the wifey and look what I saw....Torch is now FREE at AW
That was quick!
AmazonWireless: BlackBerry Torch 9800 Phone (AT&T)
Anyone else thinking about picking one of these up at this price?
11-02-10 02:00 PMLike 0 - Its only "free" if you are a new ATT individual account holder. If you are existing and want to upgrade and on a family plan, its the normal $199. Got all excited for my daughter only to have my hopes dashed.11-02-10 02:04 PMLike 0
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- Amazon.com: BlackBerry Torch 9800 Phone (AT&T): Cell Phones & Accessories
0.01 or FREE ... with AT&T plan11-02-10 02:55 PMLike 0 - I am waiting for the upcoming BOLD 9780 and I must say this is very tempting. This is really hard lol. Is signing up through Amazon the same as AT&T? Hopefully they'll offer the 9780 free through Amazon shorty after its release11-02-10 03:12 PMLike 0
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- Yeah, I don't get them upping the price. But it is selling well in Canada still.
My friends camera wasn't working so she had to go get it replaced and they were out again. She had to go back in a couple days later to get her replacement.
So since they are selling so well maybe they figure they can just squeeze a little more money out of us...11-03-10 02:21 AMLike 0 - 11-03-10 03:25 AMLike 0
- Why do you need to pay? Over here (UK) handsets are free on the majority of tariffs (except the iphone) and newly released phones on low end tariffs.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com11-03-10 05:42 PMLike 0 - OMG, you haven't been to North America long enough to understand that the providers here are ripping us off. Tariffs/Contracts are 3 years long and still no free phones. An average plan is like $80 per months. It's highway robbery I know but if they can get away with it, they will because they know they can.11-03-10 11:23 PMLike 0
- OMG, you haven't been to North America long enough to understand that the providers here are ripping us off. Tariffs/Contracts are 3 years long and still no free phones. An average plan is like $80 per months. It's highway robbery I know but if they can get away with it, they will because they know they can.
Hopefully with this economic downturn the providers will have to start doing something in order to keep your custom, perhaps it's only a slight hope, but you never know!
11-04-10 02:37 PMLike 0 - OMG, you haven't been to North America long enough to understand that the providers here are ripping us off. Tariffs/Contracts are 3 years long and still no free phones. An average plan is like $80 per months. It's highway robbery I know but if they can get away with it, they will because they know they can.
Would it not cost more to setup a network across almost 3000miles, coast to coast, for our country of only 34 million people compared to countries which span <300miles each and have populations double that of ours?
In a nutshell it's a much higher cost to setup/run a cellular network, per person, here than in Europe? I could be completely wrong that's why I ask.
Please excuse my lack of technical terminology. I don't work for the service providers and I'm not an economics prof.11-06-10 10:57 PMLike 0 - T-Mobile is getting the Torch in Q1 of 2010, my job which has a contract with T-mobile for our global cellular needs is deploying them as soon as January.11-07-10 08:48 AMLike 0
- I won't try to justify the costs of owning a cell phone in Canada compared to a European nation but now you have made me think of this question.
Would it not cost more to setup a network across almost 3000miles, coast to coast, for our country of only 34 million people compared to countries which span <300miles each and have populations double that of ours?
In a nutshell it's a much higher cost to setup/run a cellular network, per person, here than in Europe? I could be completely wrong that's why I ask.
Please excuse my lack of technical terminology. I don't work for the service providers and I'm not an economics prof.
Up until the Fido and Clearnet days many people were enjoying the most competitive time in Canadian wireless history until the big 3 started eating up the smaller companies. Recently the government came to realization how powerful the big 3 are, they finally allowed for more competition by reserving new spectrums for new companies only. The big 3 are profiting billions and billions of dollars annually. Its about time us Canadian see some changes.11-07-10 11:43 AMLike 0
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