SENATE DOCKET, NO. 640        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 130

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to wireless telephone contracts..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. The General Laws are hereby amended in chapter 93, by inserting after section 114 the following section:-

Section 115.  Each company providing wireless telephone service in this state shall be prohibited from automatically renewing a consumer’s service contract.  Two months prior to the expiration of a wireless telephone service contract, the wireless telephone company must notify the consumer of the contract’s expiring term.  Upon expiration of a wireless telephone service contract, the consumer’s service shall continue on a month-to-month basis under the same terms as the original contract.  Either party may terminate such contract at any time.  Nothing in this Section shall prohibit a party from entering into a new contract.