At 9:28 AM -0400 6/10/08, T.L. Miller wrote: >Yes, in the US, AT&T is subsidizing the iPhone. The new US iPhone prices >make it much cheaper than the similar iPod Touch. In the short term, in the long term it is far more expensive since you have to pay for the AT&T cell plan. I went just short of 10 years with my previous cell phone, and as a result have a *very* cheap plan, I for one am not willing to give that up in order to switch to AT&T. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |