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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Starting next week, Verizon will double
the early-termination fee for smartphones. That is, if you get a
BlackBerry, Android or similar phone from Verizon, and you decide to
switch phones before your two-year contract is up, you'll be socked
with a $350 penalty (it used to be $175).<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>This fee drops slowly over time ($10 a
month), but after two years, it's still $110. If the premise of the
early-termination fee is to help Verizon recoup its original cost of
the phone (see my analysis here <a
href="http://bit.ly/pOkXz">http://bit.ly/pOkXz</a>), shouldn't the fee
go down to zero at the end of your contract?.....</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Here's one example, from a Verizon
customer:<br>
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<div>"David, I read your posts about how the cell carriers are
eating up our airtime with those 15-second 'To page this person, press
5' instructions, but I think Verizon has a bigger scam going on:
charging for bogus data downloads. "Virtually every bill I
get has a couple of erroneous data charges at $1.99 each--yet we
download no data. "Here's how it works. ....</div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Victoria L. Herring</b>, Des Moines,
Iowa. Blogs: http://blog.JourneyZing.com [photography];
http://www.herringlaw.com [civilrights/discrimination];
http://victorialherring.typepad.com/serendipity/
[personal].</font></div>
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