Contracts. Why?

"Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy71@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:5v4gqaF1jph0uU2@mid.individual.net:

> In alt.cellular.sprintpcs CozmicDebris <isheforreal> wrote:
>>
>> You haven't pointed out shit, except that you don't kow how to read.
>> When income is smaller than the cost of getting that revenue, it is a
>> loss as clearly shown on the report.
>>
>> You're simply being an assclown because you can't find the word
>> "subsidy" on the report.
>>
>> Page 15- Equipment revenue and Equipment costs are both reported.
>> There is even an explanation of both terms included, which will
>> prevent your simpleton mind from thinking they are talking about
>> infrastructure. Cost exceeded revenue, which is reported as a loss.
>> That is basic Accounting 101, Tommy.
>>
>> I knew I was going too fast for your simple little brain, but didn't
>> realize I had to go this slow.
>
> So, you are still calling the subsidy a loss or not?

I am calling the differnece between the cost of the phone and the sale
price to the consumer a loss. I thought that was clear. Maybe it is to
the rest of the world.

>
> Go back again and see what you actually said. I called you on it. A
> subsidy is an expense. If a carrier takes a loss, they write off the
> loss; but that has nothing to do with the subsidy. That is like
> calling a cell tower a loss. Depreciation is a loss, and that led to
> another discussion about pre-paid phones, which seems to have evaded
> you.

The carriers do not call it a subsidy- that is a term born in the media and
used in forums like this.

>
> I won't string this tread out further, because, clearly, you are
> immutable.
>