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Early termination fee?
I'm a 2 year contract, and I think my 2 year contract ends sometimes in Jan. 2018, I was wondering if I upgraded my phone now would I have to pay any early termatioin fee? When I go through the upgrade process it dose not tell me if I have to pay for a early termination fee.
and on my online account profile I can't find the end end date for my 2 year contract
Gary L
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6 years ago
@lizdance40 Not as concerned as if told "no" as if hit with an ETF (which was the OP's question).
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sandblaster
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6 years ago
@Gary L, @lizdance40 The only thing ATT might not allow is starting a Next plan before the 2 year contract is complete. However, if you remember all of the early upgrade questions that were asked after they stopped doing 2 year contracts, it was pretty clear ATT regularly let those on 2 year contracts upgrade on Next before their 2 year contracts were over. If the OP’s account is already showing they are upgrade eligible, then they eligible for a Next upgrade. They can of course pay full price and upgrade anytime they want. Neither will trigger an ETF charge.
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formerlyknownas
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6 years ago
@sandblaster See that’s a quirk of ATT. Verizon never gave an inch. A 2 year contract was 24 months long. You could upgrade 1 week into that 24th month, but the account never said upgrade eligible until the full 2 years went by.
Had we known ATT was so liberal we might have left years ago. Apparently ATT contract lines were often “upgrade eligible “ at 18 to 20 months.
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Gary L
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6 years ago
@sandblaster I'm thinking they can, I thought in the past the were letting you do it with 6 months or less to go or something.
Regardless (back to the OP), I don't think I've heard of anyone getting dinged with an ETF for doing it.
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sandblaster
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6 years ago
As I said in post #2, I guarantee they won’t. An ETF is only charged for cancelling service.
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