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New Bill to Clarify Cellphone Contracts
theorem4 writes to tell us that US Senators today unveiled legislation designed to empower cell phone customers across the nation by providing more protections and guaranteed options. "The Cell Phone Consumer Empowerment Act of 2007 will require wireless service providers to share simple, clear information on their services and charges with customers before they enter into long-term contracts; a thirty-day window in which to exit a contract without early termination fees; and greater flexibility to exit contracts with services that don't meet their needs."
You would be locking out the poor from even getting a cell phone at all, since they can't afford to pay the full cost of a phone up front. You would be preventing an entire class of big businesses from exploiting them and keeping them poor. Then these people would have to find something else to do instead of chatting on the phone all day, like actually going to work and keeping their job.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
blame the governments, local, state, and federal, for this crap.
If they didn't have so many different ways to steal our money do you think Cellphone companies would have this sort of problem?
It is just like the junk fees we have with plane tickets. The flight is only "X" dollars - what the airline wants for the ticket, but you have to tack on taxes, some nearly double digit, landing fees, luggage fees, security fees, and anything else the locals can dream up (stadium fees anyone). Fees are just taxes with a different name but I don't see people bitching about the government, no they go off in their little brainwashed way blaming the corporations because the politicians vilify those entities with aplomb
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