T-Mobile announces more flexible contracts

By on Nov 7, 2007 at 1:23 PM
News November 7, 2007

A couple other carriers have already announced similar changes to their ETFs, but now T-Mobile has joined in. Today, the company announced that it is working on a more flexible Early Termination Fee system that will allow for reduced ETFs the longer a customer stays in contract. Instead of remaining static at $200 per line of service, ETFs will now decline as a customer runs down their T-Mobile service contract. Hot, right? Yeah, but we’re going to reserve final judgement until we see the concrete numbers. T-Mobile has only revealed that they are currently working on a new fee scheme, and should announce the finalized terms sometime during the first half of 2008. Of note: this will only apply to new customers and existing customers that choose to re-up their contracts. No retroactive clauses here, folks.

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  • Huw

    Glad the british operators dont have fixed fees, its usually just the minimum monthly tarif, or there abouts, for however many months left there are left of the contract.

  • bluehorseshoe

    Oh well. Wish it was sooner. Will be moving over to Verizon now that they have the Pearl. TMO is good, but just can’t compete on the speed and reliability.

  • Aardvark

    I’ll reserve judgement as well. I have been off contract for over one year now and I am no hurry to re-enlist. Of course they might reduce the ETF but still demand the equipment back which could still be an issue.

  • Rosegold

    so yet again sprint is late to the party as the only carrier not to offer something like this…

  • sheed

    Omg, I swear I mentioned that to a big guy up at tmobile at the sklx nyc release. He said he’d consider it and now its mention. I still have his card. I’m going to email him and see if I can get a cut or something.

  • http://www.videos4blackberry.info bbcurve8300

    I’m surprised this is just being implemented now

  • Galvatron

    Well they’d rather do this now than have congress and the fcc tak a month to figure out.r

  • http://www.sprint.com CB06

    Actually, sprint will be releasing Prorated ETF’s beginning in 2008 as well. Also Sprint has now started a Right Plan where you don’t have to sign a new contract for changing your plan at all. I know a lot of carriers already do this, but Sprint has come a long way.

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