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Mobile phone makers hit by consumers extending upgrade cycles

Published Tue, Jun 30, 2015 · 09:50 PM

Portland

IT is payback time for handset makers that long profited from Americans' tendency to upgrade their mobile phones early and often.

US consumers got a taste for phone financing two years ago and never…

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