FCC Probes Google and T-Mobile For Double-Whammy Fees

Julie188 writes "On Monday, the FCC asked Google, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon to explain how they tell their customers about early wireless contract termination fees. Notice that Google is the only handset retailer in the bunch. That's because if someone buys a Nexus One phone from Google with a two-year T-Mobile contract, and the user wants out of that contract, the user is expected to pay two early termination fees. One fee would be charged by Google and a second charged by T-Mobile."

Comments

Re:T-Mobile?

[Aranykai]

Grow up and start behaving as adults. Just because you own the device doesn't mean you can do as you please with it and continue to use their service.

Take the headlights off your car and put flashing blues on top and see if the DMV lets you continue to drive YOUR car on the roads.

Someone put a gun to my head and made me sign it!

[0xdeadbeef]

Holy fucking fuck, why are people so fucking stupid? You're not paying Google an early termination fee, you're paying for the rest of your phone. T-Mobile is charging a termination fee, because you signed a two year contract, and you're backing out of that contract, and they want to recoup the expenses lost on your fickle ass. Yes, they're probably making money on it either way, that's kind of the whole point! When has a cell phone carrier ever not dinged you for reneging on their contracts?

You wanted an unlocked phone but you still wanted the discount for selling your soul for two years. You made yourself their bitch, so take it like a bitch.

Ask yourself who gains by spreading all this inaccurate bullshit about two termination fees? Google is selling directly to the customers, cutting carriers out of the loop. The only one optionally in the loop is T-Mobile, which is the carrier most friendly to unlocked and uncrippled phones. If this keeps up, pretty soon people might start thinking that a cell phone is simply a computer. Who buys a computer that only works with one company's internet? That's crazy. It's like a car that only works with one company's gas.

Re:Fuck Google

[syousef]

I'm sorry, but I've got no sympathy for people who sign up for a subsidized service and don't read the conditions.

Yes, because I'm sure you've read and fully understood all the fine print on every contract you've signed. What a fucking moronic thing to say. Tell me, if one of your contracts insisted that your family was to be sold into slavery, would you have no sympathy for yourself? People like you enable companies to screw people.