Sentences with phrase «cellphone contracts»

Much of the testimony so far has focused on the length of cellphone contracts, locked devices and roaming and cancellation fees.

Many cellphone contracts allow customers to upgrade devices with limited penalties.

-- Two of the country's largest telecom companies have some advice for Canada's telecommunications regulator as it considers imposing new rules for cellphone contracts: scrap the $ 50 cap.

His organization produced an additional report with more focus on consumer protection issues, like having the Public Service Commission regulate cellphone contracts.

• Nova Scotia plans to give residents the option to unlock cellphone contracts at any time for no more than $ 50.

The act also includes provisions to help protect servicemembers against eviction, foreclosure, repossession, and civil court proceedings for the duration of their service, as well as allowing you to terminate certain obligations, such as cellphone contracts or vehicle leases, if you are called to service.

My blog usually sticks to law, but this got stuck in my craw: Recent media commentary about how cellphone contracts are now only 2 instead of 3 years long helps to keep the elephant in that room invisible.

The telecom regulator is holding a week of hearings in Gatineau, Que., as it aims to set national standards for the content and clarity of cellphone contracts.

Sure, at least now you can take a phone number with you from provider to provider but cellphone contracts and other hurdles mean that switching cellphone service or television provider takes more thought than, say, changing channels.

Even past - due gym membership fees or cellphone contracts can end up with a collection agency, potentially hurting credit scores and job prospects, said Caroline Ratcliffe, a senior fellow at the Washington - based think tank.

ALBANY — Domestic - violence victims would be able to break a cellphone contract without paying penalties under newly proposed legislation.

Edward Peterson, a retiree in Ottawa (whose name we've changed at his request), was denied a cellphone contract because Equifax said his score was too low.

Checking your credit score when you sign a cellphone contract seems legitimate, as ability to pay bills is a major factor in the way it's calculated (see «How your credit score works»).

Do you need the bells and whistles on your cellphone contract, when all you use it for is to call and text?

You can not get a cellphone contract if you have poor credit.

This record includes all the times your credit is checked, loans applied for, new credit card applications and any other instances that your credit is checked (including apartment leases, cellphone contracts, utilities and more).

On heating housing markets in Calgary, Toronto and Montreal, the health of Canada's pension plans, cellphone contracts and shopping malls.

More cellphones and cellphone contracts than people in some countries.

Apply this rule to other services that generally require a credit check, too, like a lease application, insurance policy or cellphone contract.