В России лочить телефоны не запрещено, равно как и в некоторых других странах. В Финляндии есть закон, запрещающий залочивание телефонов, см. ниже. Обычно залочивание оправдывается тем, что оператор субсидирует (доплачивает) приобретение данной модели абонентом. Более мудро поступили с тыТрубкой, пользуй у кого угодно, но без контракта не купишь.
Вот история простого финского парня, выложенная на facebook. Переводить лень, читайте так или переводите Яндексом. Там есть ответы на пару вопросов.
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Post 9
Oliver Lewisohn wroteon 26 November 2008 at 14:50
I guess the big technological story in Finland is the rise and rise of the mobile phone. Many people in Finland don't get fixed telephone lines any more, such is the prevalence of the mobile phone. Why are mobile phones so popular?
I think the main reason is the low cost. Sending a text message or making a one-minute phone call costs about seven cents (six pence) regardless of which network you are calling to and from, and regardless of whether you've got a contract or pay-as-you-go. When I was living in the UK, texts cost twice as much and phone calls five times as much. Texting or calling other countries is also very cheap.
The government has made it against the law for mobile operators to "lock" phones - it has deemed the practise to be uncompetitive, and rightly so in my opinion. This drives the prices down and lets people switch as often as they like to get the best deals. An example: my girlfriend can call me for as little as ten cents per hour...
Network coverage is excellent, considering that Finland is one of the least densely populated countries in Europe. 3G internet access is also very widespread, and seems likely to overtake ADSL in terms of subscriber numbers in the near future. I am often checking the BBC News and Sports websites throughout the day from my phone, and on average I seem to pay about one cent per news story I load. In the UK it seemed to cost ten times as much.
Of course, the world's largest phone manufacturer, Nokia, is from Finland, and Nokia's success is something of a matter of national pride here. It is almost seen as unpatriotic to buy a foreign phone!
It also helps that Finns are generally quite affluent. This is evidenced by the fact that there are more mobile phones in Finland than people! I have been surprised by the mobile phone ownership demographic: children get their first phones at a very young age, and even the oldest members of society own and use them.
This story isn't particularly new or surprising, but it certainly is interesting.
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