Sprint joins the party, will soon prorate ETFs

let the sprint bashing begin from all the vzw fanboys...

Just switched to sprint due to them having coverage where we live..so far so good after a few days! ;-) cdma holds a better signal almost all the time!..plus reasonably priced plans for familes! E

Nice job! We have to remember that in '03 Cingular was sued for $30m for ETF's. That's where it all started.

COOOL! Good for sprint. ITs about time. And thank you vzw fanboy, that was nice of you.

the consumer thinks they are always being hit with something. You watch the more that people say they are being hurt by these large phone companies the fcc and other government agency are going to crush the industry with regulations. People think they are getting what they want when companies like sprint atat vz are being sued, but it hurts the people that work there and it hurts the consumer. its not hard to understand that people need to take responsibility for their own actions. don't have a contract if you can not handle it. the choices are there but people just want something to complain about because the rest of their lives are unhappy. When all the cool phones are going because companies are shutting down people will quickly forget how they cried and cried about such pettie things as 200 or 175 etf. it will cost so much more.

i never understood how a company is willing to hand out an expensive cell phone for a rather reduced cost i.e. vzw 8330 is 429.99 full retail but with 2 yr and mir its 99.99. so any cell companie takes a 400-500 hit when commision and inital set up costs are figured it whenever a new cust is taken on, and to recover some of the cost the etf is assessed. and cust sign up for this deal knowingly aware of it. then go to the govnment and say hey this isnt fare. one can always buy a phone at full retail and have no contract to worry about

this is the offical info from sprint released today eff 11/02/2008: Months Remaining on Contract Early Termination Fee Amount Due 24 $0, unless customer is not eligible under the 30-day guarantee period, then $200 23 $200 22 $200 21 $200 20 $200 19 $190 18 $180 17 $170 16 $160 15 $150 14 $140 13 $130 12 $120 11 $110 10 $100 9 $90 8 $80 7 $70 6 $60 5 $50 4 $50 3 $50 2 $50 1 $50 Note: It is Sprint’s policy to waive the ETF if the customer is within the last 30 days of their contract commitment.