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Letter to FCC requesting action to stop the practice of wireless handset locking

March 11, 2004
handset locking letter FCC – mar 11 04
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Given that consumers are spending as much as $600 on combination cell phone/personal digital assistants, it is wasteful and uneconomic for consumers to have to dump those phones in the trash every time they want to switch service providers.

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