Damn, That Legal Fees Provision!

I thought this little tidbit was noteworthy. Seems Sprint is refusing to let a GI over in Iraq out of his cell phone contract, causing him to worry about this stupid bill while on duty. A law has been proposed to, hopefully, eliminate this problem. Sprint, of course, indicates it supports the new bill, with reservations, as follows:

Telecom lobbyist Chris LaRowe offered a similar line.

We're not saying we're perfect," LaRowe said. "We're confident it's a case of the right people not talking to each other."

However, LaRowe says that while his his people support the proposed bill in principle, they have a small problem with it as it's written currently. They're unhappy with the provision that requires phone companies to cover the legal fees of anyone who has to hire a lawyer to get a phone cancelled.

Ha ha. Duh. If these people would have to pay the legal bills of those that find themselves forced to get legal representation just to get out of stupid, stupid, contracts such as cell phone contracts, they would be letting them out of their contracts, hand over foot!