Exactly, until they accept every CDMA phone sold in the US that has proper Band class frequencies, then this can hurt them. The benefit of the tmobile is you aren't forced to get either a used phone or Easy pay as his thread talks about. Or that you pay full price. You can buy a cheap prepaid phone if that is what suits you, and they have a wider selection than Sprint, unfortunately. Yet this could open the market for people to buy a cellular tablet, and a less high end smartphone. There is just too much that can go wrong with this.