subject: Free Yourself With Cell Phones With No Contract [print this page] Free Yourself With Cell Phones With No Contract
Cell phones with no contract are the only mobile handsets worth purchasing. This way, you get to keep using the phone you're familiar with, where all your contact information and other personal data are stored. Otherwise, your phone could be rendered inoperable when you decide to switch service providers. Yes, the telecommunications companies are that devious! It's actually standard practice in the industry for a wireless carrier to deliberately "lock" your phone so that it will only work on their cellular networks. But it's your phone; you paid for it; why shouldn't you get to choose who ought to provide the service for you?That's why cell phones with no contracts are so popular. After all, where's the sense in going wireless but still being tied down and held back by onerous contract terms and obscure legalese? With wireless that's also contractless, you get real freedom of choice and convenience. Now the wireless providers will claim in their defense that they need to lock those phones bought through them because such products are heavily subsidized. This is a valid point. No one imagines for a moment that they would go bankrupt otherwise, but from a business point of view it does make sense.As consumers, however, we needn't play that game. Getting "your own phone," one that's "truly" yours, also makes sense in many important ways. There's already the aforementioned factor of being able to switch carriers. Perhaps equally important as that is the fact that some features could be disabled on a "company handset," one bought through a service provider, usually when you sign up for service. Sometimes it's a case of certain features not being available because the telco doesn't support them, but other times a feature is disabled no matter who you take your business to.But what if you already have a company handset? Depending on the kind of phone you have, you may still be able to "unlock" it. Sometimes it will require special hardware and must be sent in for service, but in other cases all that would be required is the input of a special code into the handset. Whatever the case, the expenses involved are extremely modest and well worth it. You will be able to enjoy tremendous savings as you switch carriers, depending on which one offers you the most for your dollars while not having to relearn a new phone, not to mention re-enter all your data all over again!
