Fine Print Friday

Fine Print Friday: Virgin Mobile’s MiFi

September 3, 2010

Virgin Mobile’s new MiFi costs $150, and for $40 per month you receive unlimited internet service on Sprint’s 3G network, with no contract or minimum usage period. Considering this new development, I thought that going through the fine print on Virgin Mobile’s terms of service with regard to their services generally and BroadBand2Go specifically would be important, to make sure that this too-good-to-be-true product isn’t just that.

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Fine Print Friday: Comcast Cable

August 20, 2010

As by far the largest provider of digital media services in the country (including cable television, internet, and digital phone), Comcast has many Fine Print Friday readers as customers. Since we always just sign off on the agreement so we can watch our favorite shows and surf our favorite web sites, the question is: What did we agree to? This week’s Fine Print Friday will illuminate some of the more interesting provisions of your agreement with Comcast.

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Fine Print Friday: Netflix Watch Instantly

August 13, 2010

Netflix made headlines this week when it announced that it made a deal with Epix (a pay-TV service that is a joint venture between MGM, Lionsgate and Viacom Inc.’s Paramount) to stream movies from those studios, greatly increasing the size of their Watch Instantly library. This is great news for Netflix subscribers (including me), and likely means that Netflix will have a lot of new subscribers in the coming months. This development makes Netflix’s Watch Instantly policies ripe for Fine Print Friday.

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Fine Print Friday: KinderCare Learning Centers

August 6, 2010

Find out what the parents of over 200,000 children in the United States have agreed to in this analysis of KinderCare’s Enrollment Agreement.

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Fine Print Friday: iPhone’s AT&T Wireless Service Agreement

February 19, 2010

As arguably one of the most popular gadgets in our society today, the iPhone is coveted by many, and most people will sign whatever they have to in order to get one. As with many contracts, most people also do not read any of the terms to which they are agreeing. If you are an iPhone user in the United States, you are likely bound to the following terms through AT&T Wireless.

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