For example, mobile carriers lock consumers into two-year contracts by charging early termination fees.
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Among other things, YMax generated revenue by collecting call termination fees from other carriers.
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With Common Cents Mobile, there are no activation or termination fees and no long-term contracts.
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Many Internet service providers would attempt to limit connections with destinations deemed not worth the cost of termination fees.
Early termination fees have always represented the flipside of subsidized pricing -- the necessary evil that keeps free phones free.
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Most consumers believe that switching to a cheaper plan would require changing carriers and dealing with various hardships such as termination fees.
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Beauchamp said he's hoping Verizon will agree to reduce or eliminate early-termination fees for existing customers and lower prices on phones sold without contracts.
Regulatory measures are also weighing on profits in the sector, including cuts in roaming charges and mobile termination fees, which national operators charge one another to use their networks.
Termination fees and two year contract locks.
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If the only thing keeping you from making a switch to low-cost mobile provider Ting is the pain of early termination fees, we've got a bit of good news: come February 1st, you can tell your current carrier to get lost.
The fine print though usually consists of a long term contract and expensive early termination fees crafted to deter merchants from leaving those merchant services providers whoworked so aggressively to win the business with their often confusing sales tactics when explaining the fine print.
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Then again, you have to consider those pesky early termination or upgrade fees.
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