UK G1 owners will be getting monthly subscription costs cut

[telliksemoh]

Does anyone think this is part of the reason?

I do know people steal phones over here and when they get reported lost/stolen the mobile service providers all share a database of lost/stolen phones with the reported IMEI number, so the phone is useless to any service provider.

BUT

To get out of the boundarys of that database you can sell your lost/stolen phone to someone in the UK and the IMEI number would come up clean in the same kind of database over there.

Now IF the prices were the same over there and not free and cheaper, we could report our phone lost or stolen (while paying for insurance on the phone) and sell it to someone in the UK for say $300, and easily pay the deductable with a lot of money left over. If so this would be a routine with every G1 sold, just buy insurance and report it lost/stolen and sell it to someone in the UK. but now... who in the UK is gonna pay 300$ for that phone when their giving them away for free with SD cards that hold more then ours come with.... no one.... right?