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Friday, November 6, 2009

Is Verizon’s New Early-Termination Fee Anti-Consumer?

verizonetf_2Beginning Nov. 15, Verizon subscribers looking to get out of their smart-phone contracts early will pay $350 for the privilege. That early-termination fee is double the current one, but Verizon insists it’s justified because of the higher prices of today’s phones. An interesting move for a carrier that just last year agreed to pay $21 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by California consumers over the very early-termination fees it is now increasing.

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Dell: If at First You Fail Miserably …

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$73 Million: How’s That for an Early Termination Fee …

Sprint Nextel is finally reconsidering its $200 early termination fee, albeit under duress. A California judge ruled Tuesday that the company must pay $73 million to the nearly two million class-action customers who sued it for slapping them with early-termination fees.

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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