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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Upgrade and pay more for less
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 20:00:19 +0100
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On 2024-12-03 17:08, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2024-12-03 14:57, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>>> Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>
>>>     As to getting a new phone from your "service provider". I would never
>>> do that. I would just buy the phone and have a SIM-only contract or
>>> pre-paid. Or don't you have those options in your country (SA?)?
>>
>> In Canada (Ontario), for instance, this is hard to do. Nearly impossible
>> to buy "free phones", not attached to a contract, at a normal site like
>> the phone section of a supermarket. Amazon sells them.
> 
>    Well, I don't expect unlocked phones at a supermarket, but I expect
> them at a phone store or electronics store. A little Google search
> indicates that that is the case, also in Ontario.

I failed to find them. Very few models.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.