Its all very strange, I consider myself a very educated consumer, it consumes much of my time researching any device but it always pays off. I think MTS has a good strategy, think about it. They will let you use any unlocked phone on there network, and they do not have to spend countless hours and resources training personal on every smartphone that hits the market. They have the basic phones that a regular user / farmer would ever need and are trained on its operation. Now the company can focus on what really counts, price, features, and coverage. Seams simple and causes less customer support issues and complaints on hardware most carriers can't fully support anyway.
Self support its great, do your research and buy your own hardware. I love not being in a contract having unlimited data, and running the most recent hardware. Gnex also have a unlocked at-t 3G myfi with sum, and soon to be win mango 7.5 and MTS has no problems with it. As long as you know what your doing. And let's face it if your rocking Android your likely a little technical savvy anyway.
Its all very strange, I consider myself a very educated consumer, it consumes much of my time researching any device but it always pays off. I think MTS has a good strategy, think about it. They will let you use any unlocked phone on there network, and they do not have to spend countless hours and resources training personal on every smartphone that hits the market. They have the basic phones that a regular user / farmer would ever need and are trained on its operation. Now the company can focus on what really counts, price, features, and coverage. Seams simple and causes less customer support issues and complaints on hardware most carriers can't fully support anyway.
Self support its great, do your research and buy your own hardware. I love not being in a contract having unlimited data, and running the most recent hardware. Gnex also have a unlocked at-t 3G myfi with sum, and soon to be win mango 7.5 and MTS has no problems with it. As long as you know what your doing. And let's face it if your rocking Android your likely a little technical savvy anyway.
Just my $0.02. Lol
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Excellent points dxintel. I hadn't considered it from that angle.
My two cents:
The majority of consumers aren't educated and just want an iPhone. I'm sure the bundling of services that MTS offers has a large effect too.
That being said, you'd think they would at least pick up one Android phone. IMHO the Nexus line would be a natural fit - it's a relatively leading edge device and MTS would only have to worry about 1 handset per year.
Its all very strange, I consider myself a very educated consumer, it consumes much of my time researching any device but it always pays off. I think MTS has a good strategy, think about it. They will let you use any unlocked phone on there network, and they do not have to spend countless hours and resources training personal on every smartphone that hits the market. They have the basic phones that a regular user / farmer would ever need and are trained on its operation. Now the company can focus on what really counts, price, features, and coverage. Seams simple and causes less customer support issues and complaints on hardware most carriers can't fully support anyway.
Self support its great, do your research and buy your own hardware. I love not being in a contract having unlimited data, and running the most recent hardware. Gnex also have a unlocked at-t 3G myfi with sum, and soon to be win mango 7.5 and MTS has no problems with it. As long as you know what your doing. And let's face it if your rocking Android your likely a little technical savvy anyway.
Just my $0.02. Lol
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
That is fine except that their people still need to know how the phones all work in order to help all the people who bring them over from somewhere set them up.
That and the fact that the vast majority of people don't bring unlocked phones.
Most people would shy from unlocking phones, or don't understand it.
Yes MTS could attract more people with better handsets. Only they know why their largest selection of handsets is attached to the sinking ship that is blackberry. And yet they ignore the number one world marketshare that is Android. Iphone makes sense, they are the number 2 in the world.
As much as I love having "unlimited" data, the more i use my phone i realize i don't need it. I rarely use more than 2-5gb per month.
I would jump ship for a Galaxy Nexus or Galaxy S 3.!!
Posted this in another thread, but I might well bump this again.
Have it from a rather reliable source that MTS will be adding different Samsung Android devices in April. Can't say more, but 'apparently' it has been confirmed. I'd imagine they will do training and things like that before they launch it, hence the April launch date.
So apparently those of us who said it was important to offer Android as well were right.
^^
I don't think that's accurate. If it is though, I'd like to see where.
It isn't accurate - adding handsets would obviously help the company, but it isn't vital to their success. They are still posting increases in both subscribers and revenue with the same handset lineup. So I can only imagine adding a handful of Android devices may finally shut-up some of the naysayers here...
It isn't accurate - adding handsets would obviously help the company, but it isn't vital to their success. They are still posting increases in both subscribers and revenue with the same handset lineup. So I can only imagine adding a handful of Android devices may finally shut-up some of the naysayers here...
From what I hear, there is a huge demand for Android from potential MTS customers, and the company feels they are loosing to many subscribers to Rogers because of the inability to offer phones like the Galaxy S2 which is quite obviously a VERY popular phone all over the world.
So is it vital to their success? Apparently they feel that having a good selection of Android devices is very important, because as was mentioned by someone in this thread or a different one, having unlimited data is nice, but not many people actually 'need' it. In fact if Rogers offers 6GB for $30/month, most people feel it is well worth it, considering the MTS offer is $25/month for unlimited. It is a great deal, and I also think they offer great plans, but at the end of the day people want the latest phones too.
My thoughts, they will need something if they plan to launch LTE. No point in having an LTE network without a handset or two to use on it. I often ponder if the lack of Android devices has to do with tethering.
From what I hear, there is a huge demand for Android from potential MTS customers, and the company feels they are loosing to many subscribers to Rogers because of the inability to offer phones like the Galaxy S2 which is quite obviously a VERY popular phone all over the world.
... except they aren't losing any subscribers... they are increasing their numbers, or at least they have been over the last year-plus.
But like I've said elsewhere - adding decent handsets can only help.
... except they aren't losing any subscribers... they are increasing their numbers, or at least they have been over the last year-plus.
But like I've said elsewhere - adding decent handsets can only help.
Not sure why you keep harping on the same stupid point over and over again. Obviously MTS feels that they could add more subscribers than they are at the moment from month to month if they offer some of the latest Android devices.
My thoughts, they will need something if they plan to launch LTE. No point in having an LTE network without a handset or two to use on it. I often ponder if the lack of Android devices has to do with tethering.
Well LTE is relatively new at the moment. It only handles data, and it will still be a couple years before it does voice/sms as well. So MTS isn't late to the game at all, and if they wait to launch LTE its not really a big deal.
Not sure why you keep harping on the same stupid point over and over again. Obviously MTS feels that they could add more subscribers than they are at the moment from month to month if they offer some of the latest Android devices.
How is that hard to understand?
I am not the one "harping" here - the naysayers claiming the death of MTS due to lack of handsets are the ones I've been responding to. Like I said, new handsets will only help their bottom line, just like I'm sure the newest iPhone did.
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