In response to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding early termination fees (ETF), AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and T-Mobile have all said that the fees were set to help recover the cost of financing handset prices. According to the Associated Press, AT&T senior vice president Robert Quinn said that “customers clearly understand that they have choices,” while Sprint’s senior vice president of government affairs said Sprint offers “clear and conspicuous disclosures,” about ETF. Verizon will start charging ETF for each handset on pricing displays within its stores. T-Mobile and Google both safeguarded the double early-termination fees for the Nexus One.
