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WTF? So $.15 per text gets Prentice against the cell companies, but a $6000 price tag on an iPhone and he's all about protecting the right of the cell companies to lock the phone down?
Take a hike you two faced turd.
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You never quite get it, do you. He's talking about a person who chooses to spend all that money BUT the government makes it illegal to unlock the phone and thereby protecting the carriers AND reducing competition.
Admittedly the two aren't quite analogous, but Prentice is definitely not being consistent. If he's for the cell companies, he'd allow locking AND one-sided contract changes. If he's for consumers, he'd allow unlocking and give people the ability to get out of their contracts without ETF in the event that a carrier changes the deal. If he's just for good economics, he'd ban the practice of locking phones that hides the true cost of the device and is just another way for companies to make us owe them, and he'd also give people the right to get out of their contracts without ETF if the company breaks the contract first.
What Prentice IS doing is pandering to the pushers of ACTA by banning unlocking, but trying to get back some cred with the voters by giving them some BS notion he's on their side by pushing back against the text message thing.
Just another day in politics.