FCC Looking at Early Termination Fees - How About High Cost Text Messages & the Lack of Low-Cost Low-Volume Voice Options?

There’s been a lot of discussion about the already high ETF (Early Termination Fee) applied to abandoning newly purchase phones and their voice/data service. In fact, Verizon was in the spotlight recently for boosting ETF rates for smartphones (with special focus on the Droid). TechCrunch reports that…

FCC Probes Google, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, And Verizon On Early Termination Fees

This is all fine. But, I’m also interested in the following questions:

1. What does it really cost cell phone companies to subsidize phones?
2.

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