New Plan W/O Extending Contract

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Defy

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Well it is in the contract that everyone signs about the 200 etf but at that point and time nobody cares cause their getting a new phone lol.
 
I can't wait until some court throws the ETF out as bad business, anti-competitive and anti-free market. I think companies like Tmo would benefit in the end as poor customer service on other networks and poor product lines and locked features would drive customers toward tmo, though it might force tmo to buy some network capacity! lol
 
There is one other way to get around this that most carriers don't mention. If your purchasing a new phone but still have time left on your contractypi can put your old phone on what is know as " vacation time". Your provider may charge upto 15 $ a month during this time untill your contract is up. During this time you can not use your old phone at all! You will be charged up to 30 cents a min during this time. Just use your new phone with a new number. This will avoid paying the early term fee.
 
LOL yeah right! They will just say that there is nothing they can do and the fees stay. Unless there is a legal ruling they won't and don't need to act. Ultimately whether someone cancels their contract 10 months or 10 days before it is up they are subject to full ETF. Yes I definitely don't like it, but do understand the need and meaning of a contract. I believe it to be poor customer service on their part if they don't honor certain special cases, but then everyone will think they're "special". So therefore they must blanket the clause.

I have never known anyone to just be let out of a contract "BECAUSE". If there are those someone's there must be some other criteria allowing this for the carrier's won't just let anyone out.

Like I previously mentioned: I'm not unhappy with TMO and that is why I chose to stay. I just don't enjoy the ETF or contracts period.
 
In reply to comments above:

Yes, the ETF is part of the contract, but it is in a regulated area, and the law as
currently written requires that an ETF bear a rational relationship to whatever harm the Company experiences because of a cancellation. The Company has
taken up part of the cost of the BB, undergone publicity expenses etc -- for the
sake of bleeding, oops, sorry, extracting from you $60 a month or so, for two years.

At the very least, that means that if you cancel 20 days before the end of the
contract, the Company has enjoyed the bulk of its side of the deal and may NOT
charge you $200 -- which it would be entitled to do if you were to cancel 20 months before the end.

This sort of corporate greed is about to be struck down -- we hope.
 
T-mobile doesn't usually extend your contract when you change your plan but they do in this case because it is the new unlimited plan. I don't know why they have made it different for this plan but they have.
 
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