Why doesn't nokia sell lumia 900 unlocked?

Two of this phone's competing models (iphone, google nexus) can be purchased unlocked from official channel.
Why won't nokia sell the phone unlocked for say, $400? They have a pretty good sale price for 2-year contract. Why not cater to prepaid users?

@Shoey5,
There are actually more CDMA users in the US, than GSM users. So CDMA is actually pretty popular.
Also be carefull, when you talk about Quad-Band. We have GSM/2G and we have 3G/UMTS. People often make the mistake thinking 3G is only data, but it is not. There are 4 GSM/2G bands in the world and 5 different 3G bands in use in the world. For 3G the European/UK band is different than the three bands used in the US (two by AT&T, one by T Mobile USA).
Most Windows Phones come with only two of the 3G bands, but with all 4 of the GSM bands. So if you buy a European model you will often not have all US bands. Your phone will work fine in GSM/2G, but may miss things like the fater data speed from 3G, miss the parallel voice/data from 3G, better voice quality from advanced 3G phones (HD Voice).
I understood that Nokia on their Lumia 710/800 actually shipped with 4 of the 5 3G bands, so in many cases you  should then be good. But I don't know about the Lumia 900.
And regardless of that the US model ships with LTE, while the European doesn't.

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