Your wireless carrier will probably tempt you with the offer of a cheap smartphone the next time your wireless contract expires. As The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern explains, however, you shouldn’t even think about taking them up on it. DON’T MISS:-Google Fiber’s chilling threat to cities: Do things our way or ‘enjoy your Time Warner Cable’ Stern says she signed another two-year contract to get her iPhone 6 this past fall and she already feels like “an idiot” because of it. In exchange for getting $450 off her iPhone 6, she’s now stuck on the same carrier for another two years and is paying more money per month on her wireless bill than if she had just sucked it

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