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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Following its rivals, Sprint Nextel Corp . will soon begin trimming the fees customers face for canceling their cell phone service early. Chief Executive Dan Hesse said Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press that Sprint could start lowering the early termination ...
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Sprint Finally Adopts Prorated ETFs
Phone Scoop - Latest News — Sprint Finally Adopts Prorated ETFs posted Today, 3:53 PM by Eric M. Zeman Today Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said in an interview that the company will begin to adopt a prorated early termination fee system, possibly as early as December. The company needs to deploy new billing software first. Once is has the new software in place, it will deduct a small amount of money from the $200 ETF for each month that a subscriber stays with the plan. more info at AP / Yahoo ...

Sprint gets smart and prorates ETFs
Boy Genius Report — ... After being sued this past summer along with Verizon for early termination fees, Sprint has finally decided to prorate them or make a tiered ETF policy. Much like other carriers, the initial fee goes down in cost as your contract matures. Pretty smart move after losing about $73 billion in settlement fees for the class action lawsuit filed against Sprint in California. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse says that its ETF will be lowered as soon as December when “billing software” is updated and ready. As we all know, the reason for ETFs is the carriers say it helps recover ...

Sprint aims to cut ETF by December - Pro-rated cancellation fees on horizon
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... effects. Verizon Wireless was likewise recently ordered to repay $21 million worth of ETF payments back to customers. Sprint is reportedly working to revamp its billing system before the new, lower ETFs will go into effect. The move will put Sprint in line with its national US rivals by pro-rating the ETF - reducing the penalty fee amount based on the remaining time on contract. It remains to be seen what the FCC has to say about ETFs. [Via: Yahoo] Similar Posts: Sprint Nextel fogives early ...

Sprint could implement prorated ETFs by year's end
Engadget Mobile — Filed under: Sprint, MiscWhile the other big boys in the US have already enacted prorated early termination fees, Sprint has still been holding out on its promise to follow suit. In fact, we've been waiting nearly a full year for its talk to be walked, and according to a recent interview with CEO Dan Hesse, the change could be made as early as December. Unfortunately, that's hardly concrete, as he also noted that the implementation was reliant on its billing software being updated, and anyone in the corporate world could tell you that ...

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