Excellent question. Sometimes I think there are more theories on this than there are on Area 51. People ask me all the time if we break the phones down for the "
gold" in them, sell them off to third world countries, or are stockpiling them because "big phones are going to make a comeback". I enjoy and appreciate the speculation, and since it is fun to talk about what we do, I'd like to share a bit on this subject.
Basically, our determination of the phones' use is made by examining the type of phone and carrier; for example, Verizon phones and Sprint phones both use a technology called CDMA. This is some of the best technology available, but because it is not used widely outside of the United States just yet, we wind up mostly refurbishing and reselling these phones here in the U.S.
T-Mobile and Cingular both use the more common GSM technology and many of the newer models from these companies can be remarketed outside of the U.S., and in fact, sometimes in developing nations.
Of course, we do get some phones that are either broken or are too old, and while we don't pay for these phones it is still our responsibility to break the phones down to their discrete elements and have them recycled.
So what about the gold? Well carriers, like the ones mentioned above, would go out of business pretty quickly if they were putting valuable amounts of gold in each phone, so I'm afraid that rumor isn't true.
But what a great business this would be if it were true, huh?
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