T-Mobile USA, Nextel, and Sprint PCS getting sued in NYC!
Cell-phone firms get call they didn't want from city
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The city’s Department of Consumer Affairs has filed a lawsuit that accuses three cellular telephone companies of using deceptive advertising to sell wireless services and equipment.
The agency named Nextel Communications Inc., Sprint Spectrum LP., and T-Mobile USA Inc., as defendants, saying they promised free incoming calls, free long-distance, and free cell phones when in fact those things were offered with costly conditions.
Jonathan Mintz, Consumer Affair’s acting commissioner, cited examples of print ads that he called deceptive because of the way they used type size. “They’re telling you one thing in the large print and taking it away in the fine prin...
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The city’s Department of Consumer Affairs has filed a lawsuit that accuses three cellular telephone companies of using deceptive advertising to sell wireless services and equipment.
The agency named Nextel Communications Inc., Sprint Spectrum LP., and T-Mobile USA Inc., as defendants, saying they promised free incoming calls, free long-distance, and free cell phones when in fact those things were offered with costly conditions.
Jonathan Mintz, Consumer Affair’s acting commissioner, cited examples of print ads that he called deceptive because of the way they used type size. “They’re telling you one thing in the large print and taking it away in the fine prin...
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"The agency named Nextel Communications Inc., Sprint Spectrum LP., and T-Mobile USA Inc., as defendants, saying they promised free incoming calls, free long-distance, and free cell phones when in fact those things were offered with costly conditions."
how pathetic. loll.
the only company that offers free incoming is Nextel, sprint and tmobile don’t. the other carriers if you have a long distance plan its free long distance. meaning you don’t pay any long distance charges, but your mins do get depleted if you have any. free cell phones? well who cares loll.
I feel bad. all they would do is settle it. loll
how pathetic. loll.
the only company that offers free incoming is Nextel, sprint and tmobile don’t. the other carriers if you have a long distance plan its free long distance. meaning you don’t pay any long distance charges, but your mins do get depleted if you have any. free cell phones? well who cares loll.
I feel bad. all they would do is settle it. loll
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Are you too ignorant to know that companies run different promotions in different markets?
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It is very sad, since the average ad for cell phone service *always* contains fine print with conditions that consumers considering a cell phone carrier have an *obligation* to read. The DCA of NYC sounds like it is taking lessons from those localities that run red light cameras and speed traps. If I were a subscriber with one of those companies in the Big Apple I would be writing a ton of nastygrams to that agency.
It is very sad, since the average ad for cell phone service *always* contains fine print with conditions that consumers considering a cell phone carrier have an *obligation* to read. The DCA of NYC sounds like it is taking lessons from those localities that run red light cameras and speed traps. If I were a subscriber with one of those companies in the Big Apple I would be writing a ton of nastygrams to that agency.
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