FCC May Regulate Cancellation Fees
ETF Should Be DEAD!
Or, customers should be allowed to buy the phone outright and avoid the ETF altogether.
It's not fair that we should be forced into a contract when we are willing to pay full price for the phone.
We buy the phone, NO CONTRACT!!!
another example of a utility company coping out and running to the gov't for help
this is the beginning for the regulated wireless industry. at the end, this is only hurting the consumers. the big wireless companies want regulation so the consumers will have no power of what happens in the market.
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Should you even give a crap about cellphones grampa?
Beginning of the end for contract sales...
Customers get sticker shock now when they realize how much they have to pay for a replacement phone for the one they drowned or ran over 3 months into their contract and didn't have...
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Not far enough
--but, if there are going to be contracts--
The ETF needs to be only the precise amount of the phone subsidy. so for instance, if you get a cheap phone, you might only have a $50 ETF. A PDA might be $200.
then, it needs to prorate over the course of 24 months, all the way to zero. so if your subsidy is $200, the ETF would go down by $8.33 a month.
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oh no!