re: Wayne R - I've never understood the supposed logic of the phone companies either. They say they have to have people commit to a 2 or 3 year contract to recoup the costs of subsidizing the phone.

Then when people have paid their phone off or bought their own suddenly the price of the plan has nothing to do with paying off the phone subsidy.

Apparently here in Canada at least one phone company is going to offer a price break to people who aren't paying off subsidized phones. This and many other customer friendly policy changes are going to come into affect in the near future.

Coincidentally, this is all happening just as the feds were about to lower the boom on the big cell phone providers. Of course that was totally unrelated to the announced changes.