Verizon is Upping Its Fees Again (theverge.com) 24
Verizon has confirmed it will raise customer fees despite announcing a three-year price lock in April. The carrier said the "vast majority" of customers will see increases of "less than 30 cents." A Reddit thread cited by The Verge suggests the Administrative and Telco Recovery Charge will rise 28 cents to $3.78 per voice line, while data-only plan charges could increase $2.37 to $3.97 per line. The changes may take effect September 1.
Fees like this should be outlawed (Score:2)
Fees that are part of the required price for every plan or product should be 100% illegal. Especially when trying to claim that prices are fixed and aren't increasing. I feel like the FTC had the authority to do more decades ago.
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Surely it's the patriotic duty of every US citizen to stop using abusive US companies.
Roaming SIMs - Cross the border for a romantic weekend in Montreal, sign up for a prepaid SIM and you're free from US telcos, forever. Rogers, Telus etc could come to the party with discount roaming.
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Fees that are part of the required price for every plan or product should be 100% illegal. Especially when trying to claim that prices are fixed and aren't increasing. I feel like the FTC had the authority to do more decades ago.
The fees used to be mandatory government imposed fees taht were outside a telco's control; then telcos discovered they could use them to hide stealth rate increases.
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Fees that are part of the required price for every plan or product should be 100% illegal. Especially when trying to claim that prices are fixed and aren't increasing. I feel like the FTC had the authority to do more decades ago.
The FTC already did this. When you elect sane rational people that don't rape children, you usually get decent results. The FTC is now bought and paid for. trump fired all democrats illegally. You get what you vote for. Stupidity, arrogance, incoherence and avarice fueled corruption.
Just wait until trump's ftc rules that any phone purchased from verizon is locked onto their network forever. [techdirt.com] This is after Biden's government gave them some cell bandwidth in exchange for pro consumer unlocking rules.
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If people are still foolish enough to deal with Verizon, they get what they signed up for. I ditched Verizon a long time ago and have never been happier.
People need to vote with their wallets because clearly, the government isn't going to do anything for you.
Re: Fees like this should be outlawed (Score:2)
Re:Fees like this should be outlawed (Score:4)
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Possible explaination? (Score:3)
Maybe they have to buy hearing aids for their, much now older, customers who can't hear them now? :-)
To paraphrase the old joke... (Score:3, Funny)
Jumped Ship (Score:5, Insightful)
What did you expect (Score:2)
U.S. Mobile (Score:4, Informative)
We became Verizon customers in 2012.
We are not particularly price sensitive, but are very much opposed to annoying bullshit.
To that end, 2 or so (it might have been 3) years ago, Verizon added a $2/line (or something) charge to bills and that was enough. We switched to U.S. Mobile and never looked back. Cut our bill from something like $110/month to more like $35/month for 2 lines.
Since then, Verizon has increased fees/charges 3-4 times that I know of.
Fuck Verizon.
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I just switched both of our lines from T-Mobile to US Mobile - and so far, so good. Got a promo that was basically 2 unlimited lines (1 "premium" and 1 "starter") for 1 year for $390. Yes, we paid for the full year up front - but it works out to just a hair over $16/mo. total. We were paying $144/mo. with T-Mobile. Outrageous - even with all of the "perks" that T-Mobile offered.
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My line is $12.50/month. That includes ALL fees, people!
We upgraded my wife's line two months ago. That one costs us $44/month, up from the $25/month that it WAS costing us.
So, now it is up to $57/month. Still not bad.
But, our need for that upgrade is over, so I just dropped it back down to the $25 plan while I was typing this. So we will be back to $37.50/month starting with the next bill.
Honestly, I don't understand why people stick with the insanely priced legacy vendors anymore. Just money to burn, I
Not just that... (Score:2)
They just sent me an email telling me my tablet lines are going up $5 and $2.50/month. Just because they want to charge more, apparently.
One Sided Contracts (Score:2)
Liars, Frauds, Cheats (Score:4, Interesting)
They sold me a higher-priced plan in April,
but said it was a 3-year price lock.
Today I got an email saying that my data line
for my iPad, which I hardly ever use at all,
is going up $5.
I expect my main line (iPhone) to also
be going up, but I haven't heard yet.
Funny how that lock-in price was a total lie.
You would think this would all be illegal fraud.
Why stay with Verizon or AT&T? (Score:2)
I have been with Cricket for well over 10 years. Back then I did the 4 lines for $100. Exactly $100, no additional fees added. It started with 3G, then LTE, now 5G+. Still $100 for the 4 lines on AT&T network. I know there is competition in that zone, but it has been a simple never changing, never increasing bill and mostly reliable. I don't use data heavily off wifi but don't shy away from it, never throttled.
So they lied.....Got it (Score:1)