{"id":635491,"date":"2010-01-19T22:19:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T03:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5452378"},"modified":"2010-01-19T22:19:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T03:19:10","slug":"verizon-dont-worry-guys-that-super-high-early-termination-fee-only-applies-to-phones-you-like-verizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/635491","title":{"rendered":"Verizon: Don’t Worry Guys, That Super High Early Termination Fee Only Applies to Phones You Like [Verizon]"},"content":{"rendered":"

After making lame excuses<\/a> to the FCC<\/a> for their suddenly doubled ETF, Verizon has now partially backtracked: The ETF is only doubled for phones people actually like! Cancel those dumb featurephones<\/a> whenever you want! You’re welcome, America.<\/p>\n

Basically, the new $350 ETF applies only to smartphones, which they seem to have trouble defining but which is easy for you and I to understand. The Droid, Droid Eris, and all BlackBerry handsets are subject to the hiked fee, while dumbphones with dumb names like the EnV and Krave will stick with the old $175 fee.<\/p>\n

It’s still ridiculously high: As Adam wrote<\/a>,<\/p>\n

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What they don’t address is why they’re justified in charging a fee that ends up being far higher than the difference between the actual cost of a phone and the subsidized price, especially if the contract is cancelled many months in. Isn’t that all the ETF is supposed to cover?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So thanks but no thanks, Verizon. Charging less for phones we don’t care about doesn’t help your case. [Electronista<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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After making lame excuses to the FCC for their suddenly doubled ETF, Verizon has now partially backtracked: The ETF is only doubled for phones people actually like! Cancel those dumb featurephones whenever you want! You’re welcome, America. Basically, the new $350 ETF applies only to smartphones, which they seem to have trouble defining but which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":951,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821,12073],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-wireless"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2FjR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/951"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}