fortunately, those deregulated corporations have our best interests...

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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.

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....

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?

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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.

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