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[โ€“] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something but here in Australia there's no benefit to not having a contract.

With our largest telco the contract is really just repayments on the phone. 24x monthly repayments is always the same price the phone is retailing for outright. You could cancel the sim and just keep up the phone repayments if you wanted.

[โ€“] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Interesting. Seems like my situation is pretty specific to the US. Lots of folks from other countries that seem to have much cheaper options by default.