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3 UK refuses to sell Nokia N81 due to built in music store

Categories: Nokia, Ovi, Three
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 at 1:16 PM

three_logo_black.gifFirst it was Orange and now it is 3, the operators are making their voices heard. They don’t want to let go of their income. Will Nokia step up their advertising and try to push consumers to buy unlocked handsets?

[Via: Talk 3G]

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Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Mobilelifer

    Personally if a network won’t take a handset for these reasons then I would just buy it sim free anyway. The networks generally don’t drive what handset I buy in the sense that I will only buy/upgrade via them, I buy the handset I want and if that means having to buy it sim free then I will.

  • Nei

    Agree with Mobilelifer – the networks don’t dicate the phones I buy, so this is no big deal.

    Some people will choose a different phone, others will choose another network… I’ll buy the phone I want SIM free. Ultimately the course of action taken by 3/Orange won’t harm Nokia, it will only benefit the other operators who haven’t thrown their Nokia toys out of the pram.

    3 and Orange need to realise the mobile landscape is changing, first with Apple now Nokia – the shoe is moving to the other foot and they can either play their part or chop their nose off to spite their face. Either way the consumer won’t care, but 3 & Orange will lose money if they carry on having hissy fits with the firms who supply the hardware which is the foundation of their entire business.