Verizon Agrees to Shorten Exclusivity Period to Six Months
Actual Letter From Verizon To The Fed
The Honorable Rick Boucher
Chairman
Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet
House Committee on Energy and Commerce
U.S. House of Representatives
2187 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Chairman Boucher:
Last February, a group of 24 small wireless providers asked Verizon Wireless to eliminate long-term exclusive handset agreements with LG and Samsung. We agreed to do so for those small providers. Today I am writing to reaffirm that commitment and to let you know that Verizon Wireless is taking an even bolder step to transform exclusive handset arrangements. Effective immediately for small wireless carriers (those with 500,000 customers or less), any new exclusiv...
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does that mean that they are going to create more unfair competition by allowing some carriers like Alaska wireless get the exclusive phones but continue to discriminate toward medium carriers like cricket, metro pcs, us cellular, and their big name competition like sprint or GSM versions for att or t-mobile. And remember this policy will continue into the deployment of lte and the uniform platform that will bring.
I think this is a worse position for the marketplace and will cause more harm to free competition and capitalism. Sell your products and services and customer support not someones product and hog it for a while.
Also i do believe the 6 mo is a ...
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