RE: [PLUG] Through cell phone to Internet - perpetual mobile contract

["kaze" <kaze@voicenet.com>]

Watch out, I have Cingular, and whenever you change or tweak your plan they
restart the one year contract. I actually read the whole contract when I got
it, but this was one of those additions they made later and sent with some
junk mail. When I said I never agreed to renewing the contract they said
that under PA law they could use my verbal agreement to the plan changes
over the phone as contractually obligating. Also I believe for me to get out
of it I have to notify them in writing just before the one year anniversary,
then stop using the phone - otherwise it automatically renews for another
year. Another frustrating thing is that not only can't you move numbers
between networks, you can't always move perfectly good phones either.

I plan to go to Working Assets wireless in 2 months when this contract with
Cingular has a non-fee escape window.

==> -----Original Message-----
==> From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
==> [mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of Arthur S. Alexion
==> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 1:08 PM
==> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
==> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Through cell phone to Internet
==>
==>
==> On Sunday 30 June 2002 11:28 am, Jason Costomiris wrote:
==> > On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 03:39:07AM -0400, Paul wrote:
==> > : This is the wife's phone so I'm not sure about it.  Is the one-year
==> > : contract enforced after the first year?  I mean, if we want to
==> > : switch to a different company after one year and four months, is it
==> > : likely that Verizon would try to charge for an early cancellation
==> > : fee?
==> >
==> > Uh, no.  That's why the call it a "ONE YEAR CONTRACT".  If they could
==> > enforce the one-year contract after the first year, that would
==> > certainly make it longer than one year, would it not?
==>
==> Actually, they sometimes try to take the position that, absent a
==> cancellation on the moment of the anniversary, it renews year to year.
==> Its unlikely the position is enforcable, though, since it would make it
==> a perpetual contract, essentially impossible to cancel.


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