Verizon Agrees to Shorten Exclusivity Period to Six Months
Actual Letter From Verizon To The Fed
July 17, 2009
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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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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I think this is a nice compromise. It allows smaller carriers access to these phones, while still keeping "exclusive" phones for the big players.
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Agreed, here in Missouri I could care less if Alaska Communications Systems sells the enV or the storm
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it is a compromise but kinda sketch with the 500k customers or less thing.
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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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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I love the strategy they are posing lets get the Government off our back while building the small carriers up so when it's time to buy the mom and pop carriers up it will actually be worth it. Imagine a customer that will be going to a small time CDMA provider because they have an exclusive phone like the Storm or Env and giving the big company's that have GSM the finger because they don't have such status devices that give them reception in their house. ☹️
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