b_s-wilk wrote:
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?
This is another reason, why, when I move out west from the east coast, I
am going to drop Verizon like a hot rock and, sign up with T-Mobile.
Christopher
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