Bell follow up

With the earlier post about bell, we followed up and got a refund for the data used.

The rep said that there is no way to actually stop the data internet in this new phone because of this phone being so new....what???

So this is like saying you get a car for it to move but you don't install breaks because, well, why would you want your new car to do what you can do before, being stopped???

anyway you can see how this can be annoying, I'm just glad my roommate was the one dealing with bell and not me cause I already done that many years ago and frankly never going back to those major corporate a-holes excuse my French.

Why Lock phones?

As many Canadian's are well aware at this point, carriers here (and most North Amercia) are notorious for locking phones to their networks. Well what does this mean? they are locked to their network and the only way to UnLock it (in order to use it with any other carrier-sim card) you have to pay a fee to get the phone unlocked.

But I raise another question:
How long is the average cell phone going to be used/last?
say 2-3 years until you break or get tired and decide to upgrade or (as with my case) go to another carrier and get a NEW PHONE with this other carrier, hopefully this new one has more and/or better features and it is a NEW phone. In my case it was funny Rogers didn't even attempt to keep me with them but it turns out Fido is owned by them now but I just have a better zoom in this phone and thought with this bill I could make use of it...

anyway this is not a great justification for network locking, I think what they target is the world usage of your phone, since you can get a much cheaper local carrier sim card instead of paying up the whazoo for the roaming charges from Rogers (and friends)...

I'm sure there are other arguments for this... as with your second point well the fuel companies do monopolize in their own way, and now car companies do it also but slightly differently; I bought a new Mazda and I can only get the oil filter changed at a Mazda dealership, if you have an older Mazda you can do this anywhere you please driving competition up and prices down...