Yet another chance to get out of Sprint Contract without Early Termination Fee
by The PocketBerry Team
They did it again. Administrative fees went from 75 cent to 99 cents. What does this mean? To all you Sprint customers out there, you can cancel your Sprint service if you are unhappy with it without any fear of an early termination fee. Just to clear up a few things lets start from the beginning.
A proposed national settlement has been reached in a class action proceeding alleging that Sprint, Nextel and/or Sprint Nextel’s use of a flat-rate early termination fee (ETF) in its customer wireless agreement violate the Federal Communications Act and consumer protection laws of the states and of the United States. Sprint Nextel denies any liability or wrongdoing but has agreed to settle under the terms of the Settlement Agreement. A copy of the Settlement Agreement is available by clicking on Settlement Agreement. The capitalized terms used here have the meanings as in the Settlement Agreement.
On December 8, 2008, the Court preliminarily approved the Settlement Agreement and has conditionally certified a class (the Settlement Class), consisting of:
All Persons in the United States who are or were parties to a personal fixed-term subscriber agreement for a Sprint Nextel Wireless Service Account for personal or mixed business/personal use, whether on the Sprint CDMA network or Nextel iDEN network, or both, excluding accounts for which the responsible party for the Wireless Service Account is a business, corporation or a governmental entity, entered into between July 1, 1999 and December 31, 2008 and whose claims relate in any way to an Early Termination Fee or use of an Early Termination Fee in a fixed-term subscriber agreement, and/or use or propriety of a fixed-term subscriber agreement whether the term was for the initial fixed-term subscriber agreement or subsequent extensions or renewals to the fixed-term subscriber agreement for whatever reason and/or who were charged by or paid an Early Termination Fee to Sprint Nextel, excluding only the Ayyad Class Claims and Persons whose right to sue Sprint Nextel as a Settlement Class Member is otherwise barred by a prior settlement agreement and/or prior final adjudication on the merits. The Settlement Class includes Persons who were subject to an ETF, whether or not they paid any portion of the ETF either to Sprint Nextel or to any outside collection agency or at all, and includes persons who are prosecuting excluded claims to the extent such persons have claims other than those expressly excluded. Also excluded from the Class are members of the judiciary, Defendants, any entity in which they have a controlling interest, and their officers and directors, and the members of their immediate families are excluded.
Source: Sprint ETF Settlement
