Wireless Agreements: Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless, Cingular Wireless, Sprint PCS

These wireless telephone service providers entered an agreement with the states that requires them to provide coverage maps to consumers, give consumers at least two weeks to terminate service contracts without incurring termination penalties, and also change the way it advertises and sells its services and coverage. Other provisions of the agreement call for certain disclosures in the carriers’ advertisements and through their retail, Internet, and telemarketing sales channels, which are designed to provide consumers with comprehensive information about the costs and limits of the companies’ wireless service.

Press Release

• Thirty-Two Attorneys General Reach Agreements with Three Major Wireless Carriers (#04-18, July 21, 2004)

Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless

• Petition, Assurance of Voluntary Compliance, and Agreed Order (July 21, 2004)
  

Cingular Wireless LLC

• Petition, Assurance of Voluntary Compliance, and Agreed Order (July 21, 2004)

Sprint/Sprint PCS

• Petition, Assurance of Voluntary Compliance, and Agreed Order (July 21, 2004)

This list includes only significant filings and is not intended to be a complete record of the matter.