Verizon raising early termination fee to $350

my guess this will apply to new contract or contract extensions past that date.

prior to that date i doubt this will apply to since there contract will have the lower etf in it.

p.s if they retro the old contracts i think you have 30 days to cancel anyway if this applies to existing customers.

and pay zero.

Looks like Verizon is tming this PERFECTLY for the launch of the Droid. the big V really knows how to weild its attitude that its the carrier everybody wants to be on.

Or could it be that my company, all 10,000+ employees, is dumping Verizon for Sprint next month? $350 * 10,000 would be a pretty big payday.

"But, let's face it: If you're going to break a contract, chances are you're not going to care that much what it's gonna cost ya."

This is so ludicrous I don't even know where to begin. I suggest you Google "efficient breach." Sometimes it makes financial sense to break a contract and pay damages. This includes construction contracts, cell phone contracts, anything. Doubling the ETF changes this calculus. (Note that if the ETF did not change this calculus, there would be no reason to raise the ETF in the first place). So the idea that the amount of the ETF doesn't matter is ridiculous.

Some of the stuff I've read on here over the past month has been pure idiocy. This one is right up there along with thinking that Samsung was awarded the official Olympics phone, as though they didn't pay for that title.

Note that no one has confirmed that "Advance Device" means smartphones, and not just netbooks.

Just goes to show how big red takes advantage of their customers when they know they have the best network. I suggest we all boycott Verizon.

Lucky we still have Cellswapper.com