Early Termination Fees

  • Court: Sprint Customers Not Protected Enough by Settlement Over Fees
    Sprint, Verizon Wireless and AT&T all require customers to pay a hefty fee – up to $350 –for breaking those pesky, two-year service contracts that you're required to sign up for when getting a new phone. ...More
    July 2, 2012 By Craig Galbraith
    Posted in News
  • Free Press Lambasts Carriers Over ETF Defense
    Google, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile all banded together this week to defend their early-termination fees to the Federal Communications Commission. Some of the penalties to get out of your smartphone contract run up to $350, but the companies say the cost of ...More
    February 25, 2010
    Posted in News
  • AT&T Settles ETF Case for $18 Million
    AT&T will shell out $18 million to former customers who say they were unfairly charged high fees to get out of their wireless contracts. Individuals involved in the class-action suit could get up to $140 back, according to the Associated Press.These early-termination ...More
    January 29, 2010
    Posted in News
  • FCC Queries Carriers on Termination Fees
    To say that the FCC is taking a more proactive stance toward wireless carriers under new chairman Julius Genachowski than under his predecessor, Kevin Martin, is like saying a cheetah could outrun a snail. Just about any level of activity would outdo Martin’s ...More
    January 26, 2010 By Richard Martin
    Posted in News
  • FCC Criticized over Early Termination Fees
    The FCC is not doing as well as it could be when it comes to giving oversight to the wireless industry, according to a report from the Government Accounting Office. The glaring stat in its report? The GAO points out that 42 percent of customers that considered switching ...More
    December 11, 2009
    Posted in News
  • FCC Probes Verizon’s $350 Early Termination Fee
    Verizon Wireless has some explaining to do to Federal regulators. The FCC said in a letter that it would like to know why, exactly, the cellco has doubled its early termination fees (ETFs) for users with smartphones like Blackberries and the Motorola Droid. Regulators are ...More
    December 4, 2009
    Posted in News

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