{"id":233088,"date":"2010-01-26T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/26c548f40b54630dc572adcc7647542f"},"modified":"2010-01-26T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T22:20:00","slug":"article-fcc-sends-letters-to-att-sprint-t-mobile-and-google-concerning-etf-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/233088","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: FCC sends letters to AT&amp;T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Google concerning ETF policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/1\/92276-fcclogo-2.jpg\" alt=\"FCC logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the FCC inquires about something, they really investigate.&nbsp; Despite Verizon&#8217;s huge $350 ETF when it comes to &#8220;advanced devices&#8221; and the subsequent harassment received from the FCC, the group has determined that it wants to hear from everyone on how they apply ETFs, claiming that &#8220;there is no standard for structuring and applying ETFs throughout the wireless industry.&#8221;&nbsp; To that end, they sent letters to AT&amp;T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Google (thanks to that equipment recovery fee) asking questions about how the ETFs are determined and applied to customer&#8217;s accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Now, don&#8217;t expect ETF&#8217;s to go anywhere anytime soon (with the exception of Verizon&#8217;s monster one, perhaps), but hopefully we&#8217;ll get a resolution in the form of &#8220;non-lawyer speak&#8221; when it comes to trying to decipher the contract terminology.&nbsp; If the FCC can&#8217;t understand the legal jargon (given the people that they have on the payroll), how can they expect us to understand it?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/26\/fcc-expands-etf-inquiry-fires-off-letters-to-atandt-sprint-t-mo\/\" >Engadget<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9TCuZ8w7h5jaXF4qs5OMqUVI0RQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9TCuZ8w7h5jaXF4qs5OMqUVI0RQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9TCuZ8w7h5jaXF4qs5OMqUVI0RQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9TCuZ8w7h5jaXF4qs5OMqUVI0RQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/nwj-ktZaa_c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the FCC inquires about something, they really investigate.&nbsp; Despite Verizon&#8217;s huge $350 ETF when it comes to &#8220;advanced devices&#8221; and the subsequent harassment received from the FCC, the group has determined that it wants to hear from everyone on how they apply ETFs, claiming that &#8220;there is no standard for structuring and applying ETFs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}