After Getting Called Out, Verizon Rescinds Non-USF-Replacement-Fee Fee
from the refund-time dept
Early and often, Verizon got criticized for replacing a USF recovery fee on its DSL customers' bills with a strikingly similar "supplier surcharge". BellSouth pulled a similar move, though it yanked it a couple days later. Now, following criticism from the FCC and the apparent anger of its commissioner, Kevin Martin, Verizon says it, too, will drop the fee. Where it gets amusing is Verizon's press release, where a C-level exec says "We have listened to our customers," which apparently happens so infrequently that it's worth noting in a press release. Seriously, though: how long before the company drops all its other fee-based nonsense and just shifts to The Onion's pricing plan?
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it's about damn time... although i still haven't recieved any e-mail informing me of such a thing...
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My God, AC, you're saying they didn't bother coming to you first? Frankly I'm shocked, having seen the weighty opinions with which you sanctify this forum.
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well, as a verizon customer, i knew well before techdirt or any other "news" source that they dropped the usf fee and replaced it with the "let's put some money into our already fat pockets" fee... you'd at least hope that they'd inform their customers that they're going to be dropping the latter fee rather than letting them find out from a 3rd party. but hey, not everyone has the brilliant logic skills that you posses mr. potatoes.
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Are you two in love? Or do you just enjoy the playful banter?
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is it that obvious? ^_^
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its a slow day and a boring piece. and i love to see my name on the screen...besides, you can only scream,"fuck you, towel head," so many times...i think. it doesn't even rile anyone anymore...
now the bit about the japs stirred up some hostility...actually i should have just concentrated on their propensity to eat our whales... that really does piss me off.
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I like to eat whales, you fuckin' towel head.
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i just like to make oil from them...
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I just hunt em for sport.
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you sis got some fine puss but you mama does that thing with her tongue.
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Shouldn't that be...
Seriously, though: how long before the company drops all its other fee-based nonsense and just shifts to The Onion's pricing plan?
nonsense based fees?
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