Apple and Samsung have customer demand that's why they can release the same model on all carriers for everyone else the carriers dictate terms.
Remember the carriers are the customers to Apple, Samsung, Sony etc in the majority of USA phone sales they are not interested in buying 10,000 handsets at high prices they want millions or they want them cheap Apple gives them millions of sales and South Korean and Chinese firms give them cheap.
Motorola owned by Chinese firm Lenovo.
Alcatel owned by Chinese firm TCL.
Notice Blackberry and HTC are in other that's the future for every smartphone company not Apple.
Top 10 selling mobile phone firms
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3115517
5 Chinese and 1 Indian that's the future just look at the 4 company's that lost sales year on year Microsoft, Samsung, LG and Lenovo becomes of it's USA based Motorola subsidiary.
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