For example, mobile carriers lock consumers into two-year contracts by charging early termination fees.
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Recently, the AIFF amicably negotiated an early termination of the existing commercial arrangement with Zee Telefilms Limited.
So how is this any different than being in a 24 month contract with an early termination fee?
Then again, you have to consider those pesky early termination or upgrade fees.
Early termination fees have always represented the flipside of subsidized pricing -- the necessary evil that keeps free phones free.
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The acquisition was listed in a Federal Trade Commission document (PDF) as a deal granted early termination under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act.
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Chesapeake said McClendon will not be compensated for the early termination of the FWPP, which was cleared by shareholders with a 10-year term in 2005.
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That is why we are exploring early termination of the agreement.
Not only must you get a different device, but you'll owe Microsoft an early termination fee that will still bring your total outlay to 70 percent of your service commitment.
Novartis announced today the early termination of the ALTITUDE trial, which was testing the effect of the direct renin inhibitor aliskiren (Rasilez, Tekturna) in type 2 diabetics at high risk for cardiovascular and renal events.
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Early termination fee and other restrictions apply.
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That small amount of profit would come after you received your Buy-Back credit in the form of a Best Buy gift card and absorbed the penalty of breaking your two-year phone contract, commonly known as an early termination fee (ETF).
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If the only thing keeping you from making a switch to low-cost mobile provider Ting is the pain of early termination fees, we've got a bit of good news: come February 1st, you can tell your current carrier to get lost.
T-Mobile gets some credit for addressing the negative connotations of a legally binding agreement and an early termination "fee, " but if you want to keep the phone you obtained at the discounted price, you'll have to keep paying monthly installments until it's paid off.
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The fine print though usually consists of a long term contract and expensive early termination fees crafted to deter merchants from leaving those merchant services providers whoworked so aggressively to win the business with their often confusing sales tactics when explaining the fine print.
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However, Gates conveniently omitted the fact that he had fired Air Force leaders who opposed termination of the F-22, and that dozens of studies conducted inside and outside the Air Force had found a need for more than the 187 planes he decided to buy (the independent study his office commissioned to make the case for early termination recommended 260 planes, so it was quietly shelved).
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Beauchamp said he's hoping Verizon will agree to reduce or eliminate early-termination fees for existing customers and lower prices on phones sold without contracts.
He added that he wants to know why there was not an early intervention in terms of a termination of the pregnancy.
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