Fifty-five percent of Ericsson's sales now come from building infrastructure, compared with 18 percent from selling mobile handsets.

(Even mobile networks don't sell handsets at a loss now; they just subsidise the price over the life of the handset, but you pay for it.)

They need to sell handsets, they can't undermine the product while it's new and they have stock, obviously.

Tracfone shouldn't be entered into this discussion as they sell seriously subsidized prepaid handsets, making their service affordable to the masses that don't want anything smart.

They don't sell handsets, they sell service.

The jointly owned company uses the One-2-One network but sells handsets and services under the Virgin Mobile name.

Apple only sold 11m handsets in 2008 and about 20m in 2009.

Mobile ESPN will soon even sell handsets in Sprint stores.

Cingular says its policy is to always sell customers new handsets if they ask for them.

Bestbuy.com had model KX-TG6700 with a single handset for $169.99, but did not sell additional handsets online.