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Google cuts Nexus One termination fee
09 February 2010
Google has cut the ‘recovery fee’ that it charges US customers who downgrade their T-Mobile service contracts
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Google has reduced the fee it charges customers, who break a standard two-year contract for its new Nexus One phone. It has lowered its “equipment recovery fee” from $350 to $150 for its new handset on the T-Mobile USA network.
The fee is levied on subscribers who dump or downgrade their T-Mobile wireless service contracts using the Android phone within 120 days. Customers who end the agreement after 120 days will not have to pay any fee.
The fee is in addition to the $200 fee T-Mobile charges on subscribers who break a service contract within the first few months of service.
In January, the Federal Communications Commission, the US regulator, sent letters to a range of mobile operators in the US, including Google, T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon Wireless, seeking information about the fees, which are routinely charged subscribers for ending their contracts. GTB