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Title: fortunately, those deregulated corporations have our best interests... Post by: Aske on May 03, 2007, 11:03:51 AM ...at heart... and the free market will offer alternatives...
http://reporternews.com/news/2007/may/03/phone-companies-levy-new-fee-not-making-calls/ Title: Re: fortunately, those deregulated corporations have our best interests... Post by: spacey on May 03, 2007, 11:36:27 AM We haven't had a land line in years, haven't missed it, won't go back.
Title: Re: fortunately, those deregulated corporations have our best interests... Post by: Clive on May 03, 2007, 04:53:28 PM Quote Verizon last month introduced the $2 fee. It is charged to customers who could dial out for long distance, but don't subscribe to a long-distance service and don't make long-distance calls. I don't get their logic. The customer has expressly declined long-distance access, yet Verizon provides it over such refusal ... then charges a fee when the customer doesn't use it?Durham, N.C., retiree Daniel Bius discovered the $2 charge on his April bill. He says he has no use for Verizon's long-distance calling plan because he makes long-distance calls on his cell phone.... Quote Verizon spokesman Jim Smith defended the decision to charge customers the $2 fee. "Because what they're helping to do is supporting the network they would use if their cousin Tillie is critically ill in California and they need to arrange a critical-care nurse," he said. I never knew I had ANY long-distance access available on my home phone (we're another face in the basic-service-only crowd). Aunt Tillie would've heard from me via my cell, my wife's cell, or a neighbor's phone.Title: Re: fortunately, those deregulated corporations have our best interests... Post by: hobbit on May 04, 2007, 08:58:55 AM I personally like the free market alternatives - let those legacy telcos die if they don't change! [sm_devil] ;D
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