No Jofm5 - I don' agree. If you pay monthly you get a free/subsidised handset and are locked into your contract for 12 or 18 months. At the end you are free to terminate having paid for the handset which you are allowed to keep free, gratis and for nothing. Of course the network concerned hopes that you will stay with the contract and swell their profit, but the savvy mobo user either renegotiates his deal with the same service provider or swops to a new deal of some kind - with a new handset. The old one has thus been paid for and if sold on then why should the new owner be forced to use the same service provider?
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