{"id":359509,"date":"2010-02-24T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/a3664cf61647d11bbbd24a8ba4fc5db7"},"modified":"2010-02-24T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:35:00","slug":"article-verizon-att-sprint-t-mobile-and-google-answer-fcc-etf-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/359509","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: Verizon, AT&amp;T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Google answer FCC ETF inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/2\/94762-fcclogo-2.jpg\" alt=\"FCC logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You may remember the FCC&#8217;s inquiry into Verizon Wireless&#8217; $350 &#8216;advanced device&#8217; early termination fee this past December, followed by inquiries into AT&amp;T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Google earlier this year.&nbsp; The FCC seems concerned that there is no standardized structure for ETFs in the wireless industry, except to say that everyone has them.&nbsp; So, they created a questionnaire for the industry leaders to respond to with a deadline in late February.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline has since arrived and the responses are in.&nbsp; Thanks to long-winded lawyers, each company prepared roughly 10 pages of information discussing the reasoning behind their ETFs, with Sprint producing a whopping 60 page response thanks to an abundance of attachments.&nbsp; In lieu of summarizing each company&#8217;s response (follow the links at the bottom if you want the juicy details), suffice it to say that the overwhelming feeling is there&#8217;s a lot of justifying going on.&nbsp; Each company believes that they are the victim, not the consumer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What do you have to say to that?&nbsp; Let Verizon, AT&amp;T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Google know how you feel about their ETFs by posting your stories in the comments!<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/02\/23\/verizon-atandt-sprint-t-mobile-and-google-all-respond-to-fccs\/\" >Engadget<\/a><br \/>Specific Responses: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/photos\/googles-response-to-fccs-etf-inquiries\/#2736646\" >Google<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/photos\/verizons-response-to-fccs-etf-inquiries\/#2736666\" >Verizon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/photos\/atandts-response-to-fccs-etf-inquiries\/#2736653\" >AT&amp;T<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/photos\/sprints-response-to-fccs-etf-inquiries\/\" >Sprint<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/photos\/t-mobiles-response-to-fccs-etf-inquiries\/\" >T-Mobile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/hY3BEe7Z1rrg-a4fHKhaYHo7qdw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/hY3BEe7Z1rrg-a4fHKhaYHo7qdw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/hY3BEe7Z1rrg-a4fHKhaYHo7qdw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/hY3BEe7Z1rrg-a4fHKhaYHo7qdw\/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\/40ntToJXkBY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember the FCC&#8217;s inquiry into Verizon Wireless&#8217; $350 &#8216;advanced device&#8217; early termination fee this past December, followed by inquiries into AT&amp;T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Google earlier this year.&nbsp; The FCC seems concerned that there is no standardized structure for ETFs in the wireless industry, except to say that everyone has them.&nbsp; So, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359509","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=359509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}