{"id":96897,"date":"2009-12-23T17:46:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T22:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2009\/12\/23\/fcc-commish-says-verizons-etf-response-is-unsatisfying-and-in-some-cases-troubling\/"},"modified":"2009-12-23T17:46:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T22:46:52","slug":"fcc-commish-says-verizon%e2%80%99s-etf-response-is-%e2%80%98unsatisfying-and-in-some-cases-troubling%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/96897","title":{"rendered":"FCC commish says Verizon\u2019s ETF response is \u2018unsatisfying and, in some cases, troubling\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/hraunfoss.fcc.gov\/edocs_public\/attachmatch\/DOC-295371A1.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2009\/12\/commissioner-clyburn-vzw-response-sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A member of the FCC&#8217;s five-person commission, Mignon Clyburn, has sent out a letter today in response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/12\/18\/verizon-to-fcc-hey-you-said-etfs-were-okay\/\">Verizon&#8217;s earlier reply<\/a> regarding questions surrounding its gargantuan $350 early termination fee on so-called &#8220;advanced devices,&#8221; and in brief, it looks like this issue is far from tied off. Her choicest quote is that she found Verizon&#8217;s answers &#8220;unsatisfying and, in some cases, troubling,&#8221; noting that customers are already paying &#8220;high&#8221; monthly fees and suggesting that the public interest isn&#8217;t being served when someone gets slammed with a three-digit cancellation charge mid-contract. She also straight-up calls the company out on its claim that customers aren&#8217;t being inadvertently charged when the press the web button on their phone without an appropriate plan, saying that &#8220;press reports and consumer complaints strongly suggest otherwise.&#8221; Commissioner Clyburn&#8217;s conclusion? &#8220;I look forward to exploring this issue in greater depth with my colleagues in the New Year.&#8221; <em>Dum dum dummmmm<\/em>. Follow the break for the full text of the letter.<\/p>\n<p>[Thanks, Daniel P.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/12\/23\/fcc-commish-says-verizons-etf-response-is-unsatisfying-and-in\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>FCC commish says Verizon&#8217;s ETF response is &#8216;unsatisfying and, in some cases, troubling&#8217;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/12\/23\/fcc-commish-says-verizons-etf-response-is-unsatisfying-and-in\/\">FCC commish says Verizon&#8217;s ETF response is &#8216;unsatisfying and, in some cases, troubling&#8217;<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\">Engadget<\/a> on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:30:00 EST.  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Her choicest quote is that she found Verizon&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96897","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}