{"id":298035,"date":"2010-02-09T12:55:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001543"},"modified":"2010-02-09T12:47:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:47:03","slug":"huge-nexus-one-etf-magically-shrinks-as-fcc-investigates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/298035","title":{"rendered":"Huge Nexus One ETF Magically Shrinks As FCC Investigates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/2-9-2010%2012-45-28%20PM-thumb-150x209-36814.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post is reporting that the ridiculously huge ETFs for the Nexus One are magically shrinking as the FCC continues to investigate the fees. Google has shaved $200 of the &#8220;equipment recovery fee&#8221; it charges if a customer breaks their contract with T-Mobile after a 14-day trial period. <\/p>\n<p>The WaPo breaks it down for us:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google&#8217;s &#8220;equipment recovery fee&#8221; applies to customers who break their two-year T-Mobile contract after a 14-day trial period and before 120 days. A $350 fee that applied to new T-Mobile customers was lowered to $150, while a $250 fee for existing T-Mobile customers upgrading to the Nexus One was cut to $50.<\/p>\n<p>Customers would still have to pay a separate early termination fee to T-Mobile USA Inc. That fee is $200 for customers who break a contract after the 14-day trial period and before 120 days. After that, it is prorated. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Don&#8217;t worry, this has &#8220;nothing to do&#8221; with the investigation, says T-Mobile. The companies are just doing it randomly on their own because they are awesome. Or at least&#8230; that&#8217;s their story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have been looking for ways to improve our customers&#8217; experience, so we were able to work with T-Mobile to find a better solution for our customers,&#8221; Google said in a statement.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other news, Google now has phone support for their phone &#8212; sort of. You can now inquire about that <a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/support\/android\/bin\/request.py?contact_type=contact_policy\">status of your order <\/a>at +1-888-48-NEXUS (63987) between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m., Eastern Standard Time. Technical support questions should go to HTC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/09\/AR2010020901272.html\">Google reduces fee to break Nexus One contract<\/a> [Washington Post]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post is reporting that the ridiculously huge ETFs for the Nexus One are magically shrinking as the FCC continues to investigate the fees. Google has shaved $200 of the &#8220;equipment recovery fee&#8221; it charges if a customer breaks their contract with T-Mobile after a 14-day trial period. The WaPo breaks it down for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298035","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\/4513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}