Until now, whenever a user wants to formalize a portability, he is forced to accept long commitments of 18 to 24 months that force him to remain tied to the operator or even to maintain the rates that they have contracted in the beginning. On many occasions they will have done it to get the mobile phone of their dreams. With the acquisition they have saved a good amount. The problem is that the amount has to be paid anyway (since the operator has subsidized the phone), even in small installments. The fact is that now, the European Union has proposed limiting the stay to 12 months. One year, maximum.
This does not mean that 18 or 24-month commitments will disappear, which also allows users to purchase the phones they want at a more affordable price or even for free. What the European Union wants is that at least one offer is offered that requires users a maximum of 12 months of commitment, although there is no doubt that in that case, the customer will be forced to pay for the phone much more expensive than with a longer commitment. It's something. And it is that until now, the companies did not have obligations regarding the time of permanence. Now things could change.
All operators have come to offer terminals that could only be purchased through a contract of 18 or 24 months. This happens especially in high - end mobile phones like the iPhone, the Nokia N8 and the Samsung Galaxy S. In any case, the intervention of the European Union will affect once again the most common practices, and not for that reason beneficial, that the operators have carried out up to now. At this point it must be remembered that the European Union has wanted to promote the elimination of roaming charges. On the question of stays, it must be said that only in the United KingdomThey are for the work of applying these rates.
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