Phone Smart - Cellphone Termination Fees Seem to Be on the Way Out - "These new policies look a lot like a gift to anyone who wants to jump to a new carrier. Before the policy changes at Verizon and T-Mobile, customers who wanted to cancel their contracts faced penalties of $175 for Verizon and $200 for T-Mobile." - only in Germany, you can be slapped with a fine of up to 270 EUR if you want to switch an iPhone contract after 6 months because you want the new iPhone (with a new contract with the same provider!). T-Mobile Germany is therefore even more customer-unfriendly than the same store in the USA. Great performance!