Verizon Doubles Early Termination Fee and More
Thursday November 12, @04:27PM
If you buy a smartphone through Verizon, be prepared for an increase in
the early termination fee. Verizon is doubling the phone-subsidy to
$350. What's more, Verizon also actively charges customers for
accidental data transmissions of as little as 0.02kb. 'They configure
phones to have multiple easily hit keystrokes to launch 'Get it now' or
'Mobile Web'-usually a single key like an arrow key. [...] The instant
you call the function, they charge you the data fee. Even canceling
these unintended requests as fast as possible using the End key doesn't
matter; ANY data--even one kilobyte--is billed as 1MB. The damage is done.'
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/2059238/Verizon-Doubles-Early-Termination-Fee-and-More
Verizon horror stories in this thread:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1441822&cid=30080150
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1441822&cid=30081014
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My old phone had the hiccups and accidentally sent 40+ text messages to
the first person in my phone book. After I called her to apologize, I
called T-Mobile. They said it looked like a mistake and deleted charges
for those messages. Would Verizon, AT&T or Sprint give credit for a mistake?
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