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Rural Carrier Association: Verizon Offer Not Enough
The Rural Carrier Associate has responded to Verizon Wireless' offer to limit exclusive handset deals to just six months. It said, "While RCA is encouraged by Verizon Wireless' most recent exclusive handset proposal, the commitment does not go far enough to rectify the consumer and competitive harms caused by these agreements. More than 180 million of the nation's wireless customers are unable to benefit from the new policy." Verizon said it would hold onto new phones for only six months, after which carriers with fewer than 500,000 subscribers would be able to offer the handsets in question. The FCC is reviewing the practice of exclusive distribution agreements between handset makers and network operators.
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