@Masari.Jones
Interesting thing is that Australia shut down it's CDMA network by government regulation.
I was rather shocked when I saw that Verizon is CDMA based, then Apple not supporting them made perfect sense to me. It's not just a contract to sign, it's a whole development of a second stream of phones, with users being effectively locked in by the network technology anyway.
In Australia you buy an iPhone and you can go to any carrier.
If you buy through a carrier you may have to pay to unlock the phone. If you buy through the Apple store the phone is unlocked and you are free.
Gee Thanks Steve Jobs for making life so difficult by controlling me - If I buy through you I am controlled to having to make some sort of choice.
If I buy through a phone company my life is not controlled by you as I feel no need to have a choice.
And any phone I buy through a phone company is the same - it is locked to the phone company.
Evil, evil, controlling Apple / Jobs.
/sarcasm
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