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Is this far fetched?

nokia becomes a US provider themselves and owns cingular in the process. That would be the best

Is this far fetched?

I'll take some of what you're smoking please.

Is this far fetched?

I don't care what any of you are saying and I didn't bother reading, but I just have to say, that this personified fight between Nokia and Cingular OWNS!

Is this far fetched?

Carriers buy at the same prices regardless of how much they sell them for...

The "2-year contract discount" came about because carriers found that they make so much more money (on average) on monthly fees, usage overages, etc that they can afford to cut or even eliminate their margin on the handsets.

Lower handset prices = more customers = more money in the long run...

If Cingular thinks they can make money offering certain Nokia phones, they'll offer them. If you look at individual model handset sales in the US, you'll see why Cingular hasn't really embraced S60 3rd devices - phones that are < $200 contract price outsell > $200 contract price devices by a ridiculous percentage. That's why carrier-branded devices in the US drop in price so quickly. They pull in all of the people who are willing to pay higher prices and then once the "low-hanging fruit" is plucked, the price free fall begins...

Is this far fetched?

Oh, ok. Then yes, it is far fetched.

Is this far fetched?

That's not far fetched.

This is Farfetch'd

Is this far fetched?

I agree that Nokia will probably never bow down and do exactly what Cingular wants because they have enough carriers elsewhere carrying the high end phones. And those other carriers are, for the most part, not as demanding as Cingular..

Is this far fetched?

i dont think nokia is concerned about that, they have subsidized phones throughout the world, including the n95. demand will go up if its cheaper, and demand will die once the phone is old. isnt that true now anyways? you dont see people jumping to buy older phones, even at lower prices. bottom line, the more a phone sells, better off nokia is

Is this far fetched?

Most of the money made by manufacturers are from the operators. Without operators picking them up, models won't do very well.

Is this far fetched?

I dont need to retake anything. I posed a possible scenario and asked if it was far fetched because I dont know, and I was asking other peoples opinions. What I was trying to say, is that if people start getting them through their carrier all of a sudden, sure demand will go up, but the more it gets saturated, then demand would go down.