Sprint Removes Regulatory Fees, Lets You Get Out of Your Contract?
Posted in Mobile by Dan at 12:32 pm
Sprint today has decided it will no longer charge customers a “Federal Programs Cost Recovery”, “Federal E911″ or “Wireless Local Number Portability” fees. These fees are NOT taxes and will be replaced by a flat “Administrative charge” and “Regulatory charge.”
This may constitute a material change to your contract and under the terms of the agreement it may allow you to terminate the contact with no fee or penalty. I’ve reached out to Sprint for comment, and waiting for their reply.
5 Comments, Comment or Trackback
Kevin
AWESOME!!!!! Been wanting to switch for months! Let me know how this turns out!
Dec 14th, 2007
Chris
@ Dan Let us know…
My warnings…
If you cancel with Sprint directly, then your old number does not become portable. So make sure you double check (even though we trust ya dan!) and transfer your number during the new service sign-up.
Eddie: iPhone time!
Dec 14th, 2007
Brian
Yes, please update the post as soon as possible.. sprint sucks!
Dec 16th, 2007
Brian
http://consumerist.com/336922/i-escaped-sprint-without-early-termination-fee-and-lived-to-tell-the-tale
IT WORKS!
Dec 22nd, 2007
John
Sure, it works, but if you plan on using this angle, prepare for a fight. I got on the phone with them, battled it out with the CSR for about 15 minutes and eventually put my girlfriend on the line who used to be an attorney. Man she was great!! It still makes me laugh when I think of the sh*t she pulled on them.
Jan 13th, 2008
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