I personally would love to see this pass FCC. Large companies have a huge advantage over Small providers, because Money is cheap to them, so they CAN fincance gears, and do the give aways. I'd like it to be more painful for them to give it away. I hate this perception that Equipment should be "free".
What would likely occur though is that the large companies would just add a second line item "lease fee", and say OK Cancel, but its your phone, so continue paying the lease for a phone that you can't use. Personally I think the bigger racket is unique connector concept, where every new Phone model has a different charger connector. Not only is it not portable between providers, but its not portable to new models within the same provider. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 5:26 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] FCC changes > Travis, > Put a different name on it like "Equipment removal fee" and drive on. > Frank > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Travis Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "WISPA General List" > <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 8:51 PM > Subject: [WISPA] FCC changes > > >> This could turn in to something it shouldn't really fast... >> >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/30/AR2008053002776.html >> >> We charge 100% of the remaining contract because we are eating the cost >> on the equipment and rolling a truck (for both installation and pickup). >> Now they want to regulate how much we can charge for early termination. >> :( >> >> Travis >> Microserv >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
