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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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.
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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)