Why is telus lacking in new phones by 2 years.

[Barlow]

Bell and rogers seem to be able to either win or get the contracts for all the new phones.... Ie. Blackberry curve....


why is this?


why does telus not try to get something people want b4 the competition?

[00CivicSi]

Cause phone manufactureres usually make GSM phones. I would say a large chunk of the worlds cell providers are GSM. Might not be as cost effective for companies like Nokia to manufacture thousands of GSM phones and then make only a few non GSM phones. So Telus or Bell would be stuck with whatever they can get. I could be wrong though....

[rc2002]

Japan and Korea don't use GSM and they have some really nice phones... I think Telus just sucks.

[Roadrage]

Simply put...our technology lags way behind Asia. TELUS and Bell won't shell out the money to upgrade to next gen technology when they know that most consumers don't really care about the new bells and whistles when all they really want is a phone.

[Ajay]

It honestly isn't up to Telus to get the newest and greatest phones. Telus and Bell are at the mercy of the makers of the cell phones.

GSM is a larger market for Nokia, Samsung, Motorola....etc thus they are going to put their resources into a more lucrative market (i.e. GSM) rather than a market that isn't as lucrative. Telus has what, maybe 4-5 million cell phone subscribers at a max. In India there's close to 100 million people that have cell phones. More of a market based on population and technology being used in other countries (i.e. GSM).

I used to work for a Telus dealership and I was at the CES show in Vegas in January. Even the Nokia rep said that they will probably at most put out a new CDMA phone sometime this summer and then after that you won't see any Nokia phones for Telus. Another reason for that is because Telus wants exclusive phones and no manufacture is going to make a phone exclusively for a small carrier.