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Originally Posted by FlameOn
This is a case of well intentioned pro-consumer legislation being side stepped by corporate greed and cleaver lawyers. If anything the government is only guilty of being negligent in not putting provisions in to prevent something like this and not doing enough to break up the triopoly of Robellus.
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I bet the lobby groups for the telcos pitched this to them. They would have been overall against it (hence the adds) but behind the scenes they would have been pushing telco friendly options.
Limiting the maximum length of contracts always only had one outcome, a higher hidden device subsidy built into the contract. (I think I argued this in several threads at that time) so either the authors were incompetent or it was intentional. To me it was anything but we'll intentioned.
Definitely agree with your second point though.