In alt.cellular.verizon Paul Miner <pminer@elrancho.invalid> wrote:
>
> I was under the impression that the cost to acquire a new customer
> included more than just the cost of the equipment subsidy.
>

Same goes for walmart ... you don't sign a contract with them when you walk in
the door saying that you will pay them $X every month or pay $XXX to quit
paying.

The ETF is connected to the reduction in phone price. Any other money spent,
whether it be advertising or paying for good reviews, is not money they have a
right to recoup via a contract.

As far as the cost of activation goes ... they already charge you activate an
account, so no contract needed for that.

> Just curious, does anyone know when they stopped calling themselves
> Sprint PCS? Was it around the time of the Nextel merger, or before
> that? It seems odd to refer to them as Sprint PCS this many years
> later.
>

Sprint split off Sprint PCS years ago so there was a tracking stock and the
main stock. Then, Sprint merged with Nextel and Sprint PCS was rolled back
into the fold leaving Sprint Nextel. As far as when, well, it should be
obvious from the name, eh? :-)

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