T-Mobile announces more flexible contracts

Posted by Joshua Karp on Nov 7, 2007 1:23 pm 8 comments

Filed in News, T-Mobile

A couple other carriers have already announced similar changes to their ETFs, but now T-Mobile has joined in. Today, the company announced that it is working on a more flexible Early Termination Fee system that will allow for reduced ETFs the longer a customer stays in contract. Instead of remaining static at $200 per line of service, ETFs will now decline as a customer runs down their T-Mobile service contract. Hot, right? Yeah, but we’re going to reserve final judgement until we see the concrete numbers. T-Mobile has only revealed that they are currently working on a new fee scheme, and should announce the finalized terms sometime during the first half of 2008. Of note: this will only apply to new customers and existing customers that choose to re-up their contracts. No retroactive clauses here, folks.

8 comment(s) for this post.

On Nov 7, 2007 @ 1:42 pm, Huw Said:

Glad the british operators dont have fixed fees, its usually just the minimum monthly tarif, or there abouts, for however many months left there are left of the contract.

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On Nov 7, 2007 @ 1:52 pm, bluehorseshoe Said:

Oh well. Wish it was sooner. Will be moving over to Verizon now that they have the Pearl. TMO is good, but just can’t compete on the speed and reliability.

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On Nov 7, 2007 @ 2:48 pm, Aardvark Said:

I’ll reserve judgement as well. I have been off contract for over one year now and I am no hurry to re-enlist. Of course they might reduce the ETF but still demand the equipment back which could still be an issue.

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On Nov 7, 2007 @ 4:30 pm, Rosegold Said:

so yet again sprint is late to the party as the only carrier not to offer something like this…

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On Nov 7, 2007 @ 4:52 pm, sheed Said:

Omg, I swear I mentioned that to a big guy up at tmobile at the sklx nyc release. He said he’d consider it and now its mention. I still have his card. I’m going to email him and see if I can get a cut or something.

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On Nov 7, 2007 @ 4:57 pm, bbcurve8300 Said:

I’m surprised this is just being implemented now

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On Nov 7, 2007 @ 6:30 pm, Galvatron Said:

Well they’d rather do this now than have congress and the fcc tak a month to figure out.r

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On Nov 17, 2007 @ 8:21 am, CB06 Said:

Actually, sprint will be releasing Prorated ETF’s beginning in 2008 as well. Also Sprint has now started a Right Plan where you don’t have to sign a new contract for changing your plan at all. I know a lot of carriers already do this, but Sprint has come a long way.

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