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Originally Posted by sebo
it's sort of like buying a brand new car and then being forced to upgrade to a new car a few years later if you want to keep driving it on the freeway, or buying a new car but it can't be driven on the freeway because you don't have the correct model (plan). bad analogy, maybe  |
yes bad example, for the example itself, yes the government can regulate vehicles but they can't impose anything ex post facto
secondly, i don't remember seeing anywhere in the terms of service that you were guaranteed to right to use any phone on any plan, like the previous post states (to a larger extent) plans have restrictions
and in the example you provided you state that in order to keep using service you have to upgrade or buy a new car, but you don't have to. you can keep using the phone you have and the service you have all you want,
however if you want a new phone you have to play the game, just like when you got your phone in the first place, you wanted a discounted phone, you signed a contract
now if you want a certain new phone, you change plans
i remember back in the day if you wanted to change your plan, your contract restarted, if you upgraded you had to get on the new plan (in some cases that still happens), basically if you did anything the contract restarted
point is the carriers can and will do whatever they want and theyre not obligated to do anything, so sorry you're gonna lose your great plan but as several people have stated you shouldn't have expected it to last forever