The new promotion, which begins Friday, invites AT&T and Verizon customers to bring their cellphone bill into a Sprint store to get a gift card worth up to $350 that will cover early-termination fees and the cost of a phone.
Who would’ve thought that T-Mobile would be the talk of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas?
Could that be the death knell we hear ringing for postpaid contracts? T-Mobile did away with them for new customers last spring, and now we are being paid to leave our old carrier, early-termination fees be danged.
AT&T fired back at T-Mobile, noting how it has "the nation’s fastest and most reliable network" and that "[T-Mobile doesn’t] have it."
AT&T, Sprint and Verizon Wireless all charge you for breaking your two-year contract. T-Mobile might start paying those fees to encourage you to switch.
Attorneys for Verizon Wireless tried to get a $21 million refund the company owed its customers reduced, but it was to no avail.
Google, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile all banded together this week to defend their early-termination fees to the Federal Communications Commission. Some of the penalties to get out of your smartphone contract run up to $350, but the companies say the cost of subsidizing smartphones is hefty, and it’s only fair for customers to shoulder […]
Responding to complaints from users – and a nudge from the Federal Communications Commission – Google Inc. (GOOG) has slashed the early-termination fee on its Nexus One handset by more than half. The “equipment recovery” fee for returning one of the new devices, based on Google’s Android mobile operating system, was originally $350. Added to the […]
AT&T will shell out $18 million to former customers who say they were unfairly charged high fees to get out of their wireless contracts. Individuals involved in the class-action suit could get up to $140 back, according to the Associated Press. These early-termination fees have been getting a lot of close scrutiny in recent months. […]
To say that the FCC is taking a more proactive stance toward wireless carriers under new chairman Julius Genachowski than under his predecessor, Kevin Martin, is like saying a cheetah could outrun a snail. Just about any level of activity would outdo Martin’s hands-off policy. Nevertheless, consumer activists will be encouraged to find that today […]
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