Wrong. In a market where people will use all possible tricks to switch mobile phone providers at the drop of a hat, especially when they want to switch to a new mobile phone model, it's actually cheaper to subsidise the customer that stays:
You pay the same amount of subsidy on the phone as for a new customer, but you don't have all the acquisition costs, since the guy is already with you.
New customers that switch to your service and get a new phone and then bugger off after 6 months or a year only end up consting you money, since most likely they didn't subscribe to use the service, but only to score a new phone...
In the long run, you can actually attract customers if you build up a rep for good service and pampering your established customer base with new gizmos on a regular basis. That can, and will, make ppl switch to your service over someone else's. And why move away if you can get a new phone without the hassle of switching, carrying your "portable" number along etc?
In Switzerland, there's a drink called "Williamine" made from distilled Williamine pears. It gets you very, very drunk, after which you feel the Sledgehammer in your head...
So the Sledgehammer seems to be the natural successor...?
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Wrong. In a market where people will use all possible tricks to switch mobile phone providers at the drop of a hat, especially when they want to switch to a new mobile phone model, it's actually cheaper to subsidise the customer that stays:
You pay the same amount of subsidy on the phone as for a new customer, but you don't have all the acquisition costs, since the guy is already with you.
New customers that switch to your service and get a new phone and then bugger off after 6 months or a year only end up consting you money, since most likely they didn't subscribe to use the service, but only to score a new phone...
In the long run, you can actually attract customers if you build up a rep for good service and pampering your established customer base with new gizmos on a regular basis. That can, and will, make ppl switch to your service over someone else's. And why move away if you can get a new phone without the hassle of switching, carrying your "portable" number along etc?
Think about it.
Just to satisfy your curiosity: on standard W*ndows Minesweeper Expert Level: 56 seconds. On the Psion 5mx Expert Level: 37 seconds.
Does that make me the answer to the whole P/NP thing? Or just an idiot with too much spare time on his hands?
netbiker
In Switzerland, there's a drink called "Williamine" made from distilled Williamine pears. It gets you very, very drunk, after which you feel the Sledgehammer in your head...
So the Sledgehammer seems to be the natural successor...?
- netbiker