Potentially opening the door to penalty-free cellphone contract cancellations, Sprint customers received the following in their December invoice:
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WABC Looking For Angry Cingular Customers
By 12.22.06
WABC wants to hear from NYC-area Cingular customers who are against the text-message rate price hike.
Ask The Fray: What’s The Legal Definition of ‘Subscribe?’
By 12.21.06
In the correction Cingular offered on our, “Break Your Cingular Contract Without Fee, Thanks 2 Txt Msg $ Raise” post, Cingular contends that text-messaging is not a service that users “subscribe” to.
We Interview Cingular About Cancelling Over Text Message Plans
By 12.20.06
JackLeaker: yes, I’m sure they are…
What Cingular Tells Customers Canceling Over Text Message Rates
By 12.20.06
This is what Cingular will probably tell you if you call up trying to get out of your cellphone contract and service without paying an early termination fee based on their recent text message rate raise.
Cingular Foils Reader’s Attempt To Break Contract
By 12.19.06
Reader Corey wants to break out of his Cingular cellphone contract without fee, but is having trouble.
Break Your Cingular Contract Without Fee, Thanks 2 Txt Msg $ Raise
By 12.19.06
Gimlet-eyed Cingular customers may have noticed the cellphne provider changing its text message rates from $.10 to $.15 and realized they can use that to escape contract without early termination fee.
FCC Keeps Cellular Outage Reports Secret
By 12.19.06
Wouldn’t it be nice to definitively know which cellphone network had the fewest outages?
Cellphone Dealers Won’t Sell Nice Phones To Less Profitable Customers
By 12.15.06
Cellphone dealers will sometimes hold new and limited quantity cellphones from existing customers, preferring to sell them to more profitable new customers or contract upgrades, members of HowardForums allege.
Get A Better Cellphone Deal By Being Immigrant?
By 12.14.06
A reader tip suggests you can get a better deal on a cellphone by being an immigrant.
Skype-Out Will Cost $30/Year On Jan 31
By 12.13.06
Starting January 31st, 2007, Skype users placing calls to domestic numbers will pay an annual fee of $30 for unlimited usage.
Solve This Math Problem, Verizon
By 12.12.06
Considering their ability to convert cents to dollars, Verizon should have no trouble solving this equation.
VerizonMath’s Open Letter To Verizon
By 12.12.06
George Vaccaro posted an open letter to Verizon after winning a public battle over his wireless bill, a fight that hinged on Verizon Wireless employee’s inability to tell the difference between .002 cents and .002 dollars.
Transcript Of Verizon Still Not Knowing Difference Between Dollars And Cents
By 12.12.06
Inside is the phone transcript of another user experiencing the same problem as George. Verizon told Peter he was to be charged .0015 cents per kilobyte for data usage. Instead, they charged him .0015 dollars.
Verizon Still Can’t Count
By 12.11.06
Peter goes through several employees who can’t understand the hundredfold difference between dollars and cents. He escalates to and wrangles with a supervisor. At the end, Peter asks for his charge to be refunded.
