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<blockquote data-quote="Gilwen" data-source="post: 5073850" data-attributes="member: 1871"><p>Well to get new service at most carriers you will sign a contract for x amount of time. At ATT the standard is 2 years. With the iPhone a data plan is required for the life of the service and cannot be removed from the service plan. Even if you get a connect card for you laptop there is a 2 year contract. Both phones and connect cards come with the option of a no commitment price but then your are going to be paying for the full cost of the device instead of it being largely discounted or free. Even then the no comitmment price isn't avilable on every model; it's not avilable on the iphone. So to answer your quesiton every iPhone user is on a contract with a data plan that they cannot remove from the service even after the contract period is over unless they terminate the service. Also it is a recent occurance (within the last three years) that carriers have left the wifi features of cell phones that had the feature turned on when the phone was sold to the end user without some sort of data plan.</p><p>ATT allowing the iPad to be month to month with no contract which is not really the norm, yet, in this industry. This means Apple is subsdizing ATT and then Apple is passing along those costs to the ppl who buy the 3g enabled ones. The difference in price across the board is $130 for 3G enabled ipads, which is at the very least what apple is paying for the cell device but seeing Apple's pricing for the last decade there is likely a premium being tossed in with that $130.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Gil</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gilwen, post: 5073850, member: 1871"] Well to get new service at most carriers you will sign a contract for x amount of time. At ATT the standard is 2 years. With the iPhone a data plan is required for the life of the service and cannot be removed from the service plan. Even if you get a connect card for you laptop there is a 2 year contract. Both phones and connect cards come with the option of a no commitment price but then your are going to be paying for the full cost of the device instead of it being largely discounted or free. Even then the no comitmment price isn't avilable on every model; it's not avilable on the iphone. So to answer your quesiton every iPhone user is on a contract with a data plan that they cannot remove from the service even after the contract period is over unless they terminate the service. Also it is a recent occurance (within the last three years) that carriers have left the wifi features of cell phones that had the feature turned on when the phone was sold to the end user without some sort of data plan. ATT allowing the iPad to be month to month with no contract which is not really the norm, yet, in this industry. This means Apple is subsdizing ATT and then Apple is passing along those costs to the ppl who buy the 3g enabled ones. The difference in price across the board is $130 for 3G enabled ipads, which is at the very least what apple is paying for the cell device but seeing Apple's pricing for the last decade there is likely a premium being tossed in with that $130. Gil [/QUOTE]
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