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SPAIN (El Pais) The incentive of a new, latest-model smartphone for less than its market price is a popular reason for 'porting' , or moving, one's cellphone number to another operator. Yet doing so ends up being quite expensive for customers, says DoctorSIM, a consulting firm that specializes in telephone rates. Some 60 percent of portability transfers between the main operators Movistar, Orange and Vodafone are due to offers involving subsidized cellphones. Clients pay less than the full retail price for a state-of-the-art phone in exchange for signing a contract of one year or more. In the end, these customers will end up paying their new operator 261 euros more than they should during the first year, according to DoctorSIM.>>>
