Verizon is Upping Its Fees Again (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/01/186206/verizon-is-upping-its-fees-again
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/717506/verizon-fee-price-increase-administrative-charge
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/717506/verizon-fee-price-increase-administrative-charge
Possible explaination? (Score:2)
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:1)
"We've upped our fees, now up yours!"
Jumped Ship (Score:4, Insightful)
After enduring price hikes (well in excess of inflation) for the exact same service for several years, I jumped ship to an MVNO. My daily experience of making calls and accessing cellular data is no different, but I'm now paying 1/3 what I used to. Given the structure of the MVNO and local geography, half the time I'm using the exact same Verizon cell towers.
What did you expect (Score:2)
They have to goose profits to claim an even fatter bonus
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.
Re: (Score:2)
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.
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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> 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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The latest craze is trump shooting the messenger. He did not like the jobs report. Answer, fire the BLS commish. I imagine everyone in the gov got the message. Fudge the numbers to make orange man happy.