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How are network carriers still so critical when choosing a phone in the USA? Seems to be a unique situation compared to other markets (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 days ago by Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/AskUSA@discuss.online

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I was reading a bit about different phones, and one point that comes up a lot from USA commenters is that people cannot just use any phone they want, it needs to be a specific model supporting their network carrier, especially the network bands.

I live in Europe, this is pretty unknown here, and from what I gather, Asian buyers are also free to use any phone they want.

How come that nothing has ever been made to improve that situation?

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[–] 0x01@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

Americans have uniquely accepted a compromising position of a "lower" price phone that only works with one network and locks them in for a fairly long duration.

The American population has accepted quite a few of these uniquely compromising situations under the guise of "the free market"