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With the trade-in offer, the $120 credit would knock down the monthly device fee to $15.
Instead, it allows customers to buy a smartphone for less up front and then requires them to pay a monthly device fee for two years.
Customers can trade in an iPhone 4S or iPhone 4, for example, for the iPhone 5 at no cost up front, along with a $120 credit toward the monthly device fee.
Despite T-Mobile's promise to be more straightforward than other carriers, some consumers might still find it confusing that they have to pay an extra device fee after paying $100 up front for an iPhone.
In other words, if a customer traded in her old iPhone from Verizon to T-Mobile and got an iPhone 5, the least she can pay each month would be $65 (when accounting for the $15 monthly device fee and $50 phone plan that includes 500 megabytes of data).
The President's Proposal replaces the medical device fee with an excise tax (yielding the same revenue) that starts in 2013 to facilitate administration by the IRS.
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Verizon's Share Everything plans tend to look a hair cheaper than AT&T's too, but AT&T's Mobile Share plans also reduce device fees as data caps grow larger.
Let us not forget the increases in dog fees, trash fees, utility user fees, back-flow device fees, library fees, out-door dining fees — the list goes on and on.
With Bayh playing a prominent role in the haggling over the public option and medical device fees, it was impossible to ignore the fact that WellPoint, a behemoth insurer, was paying Susan Bayh hundreds of thousands of dollars.
OEMs, often paying a per-device fee to Microsoft to ship devices running Google's Android, now have a separate option that includes no software payments.
There is no per-device fee.
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