T-Mobile Being Sued For Locking Mobile Handsets
Filed in archive Mobile Phones by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on October 13, 2007
No such laws exist in the US. However, that doesn't stop a California man for taking T-Mobile to court over locking his phone. Basically the affected party is seeking a court injunction preventing T-Mobile from collecting a $200 early termination fee. They are also looking to get T-Mobile to disclose their phones are locked, the affect those locks have, and force them to unlock phones.
T-Mobile is trying to hold up this lawsuit on a technicality. The customer agreement says you have to go through arbitration and you waive the right to sue us. What kind of <expletives deleted> reason is that? The california supreme court
basically ignored the appeals from T-Mobile, allowing the case to go to trial.Wired claims this lawsuit along with the iPhone lawsuit currently going on in California could change the relationship between mobile carrier and customer. While I am pessimistic about either suit's chances for success, I would be thrilled if the customer/carrier relationship got a little less lopsided as a result.
Via Wired
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