Can I get out of my contract with my cell phone provider?
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Can I get out of my contract with my cell phone provider?
I started my contract over 18 months ago while I was deployed to Iraq. My wife without proper authorization got an upgrade. In doing so she renewed the contract without the sales associate informing her of the changes. I have the new contract and she never initialed the term comment nor did she sign the contract. Now my cell phone provider says that they can’t do anything about it because the upgrade was done through a national retail electronics chain and nor directly by them. The chain didn’t get proper authorization to make the changes; my wife gave them my name and confirmed my address.
Asked on August 29, 2011 Texas
Answers:
MD, Member, California Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
Your wife, if she is an authorized co-user, may have properly signed the agreement or authorized renewal. The retailer is correct; you must go to the entity through whom she renewed. That being said, the laws from the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act and similar laws should be able to help you in this situation. If you are back on U.S. soil (i.e., no longer deployed), you should seriously consider discussing the matter with your state's attorney general and also the going up the chain to corporate to get this matter resolved. Explain your wife did not have legal authorization and was not told that this would be considered a renewal.
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