This article talks about cellphone manufacturers starting to sell phones directly to consumers. If it works out, it will be great for consumers. Until now, large switching cots (contracts and losing your phone number) have locked consumers into their carriers. Now, with the ability to move your phone number from carrier to carrier, if you pay the $80 premium, you can avoid the contract as well. This will (hopefully) turn the cellphone services into a commodity, thus lowering the price, and stop some damn companies from charging crazy amounts for services that cost them pennies.
That’s my rant; good night, and good luck.