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RE: Canada to Outlaw Locked Cell Phones
This is ridiculous. Just let people choose what they sell and what they buy.
Now, I usually get flack from Americans when I say this. They will think I'm an uneducated American hillbilly or something. But I'm well educated and this is how we do it in Sweden.
Granted, Sweden is not the U.S. or Canada. But neither the laws of physics nor economics seize to matter once you cross the ocean, I'll promise you that.
Unfortunately, in the United States it is all about how much money you can wring out of customers. I remember when cell phone providers could actually charge you to unlock your completely paid off cell phone. Now they hide that charge behind "usage minimums" like T-Mobile does to get around it being illegal to ask for a fee to unlock your phone. It is ridiculous.
Apparently there's no money in "consumer choice". How sad...
The way it seems to me, most of the time the real "customer" that the companies care about catering to and pleasing is the government regulatory body itself.
Extremely true words there. They only do what they have to do to get the product on shelves and avoid hefty fines by the government - consumer be damned in many cases.
There are many layers. Fines would be one. But then there are outright bribes and more often various influence games or "favors".
Politicians and big business established the first "gift economy" ;)