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Re: Why Verizon Crippled the Touch Pro

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Originally Posted by yardizidifer View Post
+1 on that. If HTC can make an unlocked gsm device, can't they also make an unlocked cdma device???
There's no market for unlocked CDMA. GSM's a worldwide standard, and all the other countries have unlocked phones. It's a very normal, typical thing to make an unlocked GSM phone as in other countries it's a very normal, typical thing to buy your phone with no regard for what provider you have. CDMA is very proprietary, though. In the US, unlocked phones are still a very new and rare concept. It's too small a market for HTC to support. The only reason unlocked models are hitting the US at all is because they're already manufacturing them for other countries. CDMA doesn't have this support elsewhere, so they'd literally be manufacturing a run of a few hundred, at best, which just makes no economic sense.
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