price politics for hardware updates post-phase-1/2

John Seghers jseghers at cequint.com
Mon Aug 20 23:55:49 CEST 2007


Jan wrote:
> Somewhere I read that FIC will likely sell the phase 2 to phase 1 owners
> for something like $150 (instead of $300 - yes, I know that phase 2 will
> cost more likely around $450 instead of $300).

Hi Jan,

When FIC announced the Phase 1 phones, they told us that instead of paying
full-price for the phase 1 and then getting a discount on phase 2 (and
having to put a system in place for tracking who gets the discounts) they
simply sold the Phase 1 phones at a discount.

- John





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