Verizon Wireless reduces the exclusive mobile phone deals
Verizon Wireless said Friday that it will change your mobile phone exclusivity deals to ensure that smaller carriers get access to hot new phones more quickly.
In a letter dated July 17, the executive director of Verizon Wireless Lowell McAdam told key members of Congress, that Verizon Wireless, which is the largest wireless service provider in the country, will allow smaller wireless operators with less than 500,000 phones have been offering customers offering Verizon customers only after six months. Some of the exclusive rights that Verizon has deals with mobile bodies last few years.
McAdam wrote after lawmakers on Capitol Hill have questioned the practice of large companies, cellular phone bright long exclusive deals with certain telephone number of the person, mostly to small operators, who often serve rural areas do not have access to the hottest phones. Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department is also examining the practice.
The most publicized exclusive mobile phone deal AT & T in the multi-year contracts with Apple is the exclusive carrier of the popular iPhone. Consumer groups have long complained that consumers living in areas not served by AT & T, have been completely disconnected from the receipt of the latest and greatest mobile phone technology in the iPhone.
In what looks like an attempt to prevent any legislation from Congress, or further action by the FCC and Justice, Verizon said that to change its policies to ensure that smaller carriers get access to new phones as well.
“Any new exclusivity agreement we enter with a mobile enforcement will last no longer than six months - for all producers and all devices,” McAdam wrote in the letter.
But McAdam also defended the practice of exclusivity deal, and said that the company still plans to strike deals with manufacturers of such phones.
“Exclusivity arrangements for the promotion of competition and innovation in the development of device and design,” he said in the letter. “This new approach is fair to all parties.”
It will be interesting to see if any of the other major mobile phone operators to follow the lead Verizon to reduce the time, has exclusive deals. If not, it seems unlikely that such a move one operator would have been enough to reassure the law and state regulatory authorities.





