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Originally Posted by bimota
So my understanding is if a get a new phone (not a smart phone) and renew my contract for two more years, they can still rise my rates. I have six phones f&f with all the bling included I pay 99 dollars out the door with two tp2 insured. So after I buying six new phones they can rise my rate the next day, so there is no contract???
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That's mostly correct. Sometimes some carriers actually lock in the rate for the duration of the contract in writing, most do not. Honestly I haven't read the fine print of my sprint contract so don't know for sure even for my own Sprint contract.
However, I do know that if a carrier changes the plan materially such that it costs more, you can break your contract without having to pay any early termination fee. These days, most carriers won't piss off their valued post-paid subscribers this way since prepaid plans are so cheap... but that doesn't mean that they can't. Sprint has terminated contracts of SERO users that called customer service "too many times" to try to get more discounts in 2007.
Sprint breaks up with high-maintenance customers | News Blog - CNET News
Many moons ago, Cingular doubled LD rates on me when I used to subscribe to cell phone service through them, and wouldn't let me break my contract without paying the WHOLE early termination fee (that was before legislation was passed to force carriers to pro-rate their ETF's) since they claimed that LD wasn't part of the basic cell phone contract... so I just got a sprint phone and overlapped coverage for two months since it was cheaper than paying the ETF... that was before I started reading about consumer rights in the Internet Forums.