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 lflarry1Analog Is Not A MythPremium
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1 edit | Verizon DSL price changing options If you are an existing "Verizon Freedom bundled" customer you don't have to change anything. The Verizon online part of the bill will have an $8 dollar discount instead of the $5 dollar discount that is now on the bill.
I think Verizon lost some customers when they started charging the FUSF fee on the modem and also on the POTs service. I was under the impression that the idea behind the FUSF was to have a money fund to bring telephone service to everyone regardless of the distance or conditions. A fund to be used only if the phone company had to do any kind of expensive non-standard installation and so on...... And not charging the customer an astronomical rate.
I can see phone service being important to people at an affordable price but, could never quite figure out why broadband fits into this category. Broadband is more like a luxury than a necessity. Dialup is slow but afterall it still works in this context. The extra fees really,IMO, don't apply on the modem. Verizon is slower than ool and if they keep on tacking on more fees and restrictions,more people are going to switch to ool. All I see is another self-defeating bad management decision made by clueless,greedy upper executives. When it fails they'll all blame each other,industry conditions, or the economy.
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| One interesting thing about the FUSF fee on the DSL service is that it's not a regulated fee.
Sure VerizonOnline is charged FUSF fees by the people who provide VOL the actual lines (Verizon BroadBand VzBB) but VOL is not required to charge this fee to their customers, in fact they arent supposed to collect it as a fee. Read their info on the FUSF fee you'll see that they are "passing through" the cost they are being charged for the line by VzBB.
I thought that's what the base price was for, instead some greedy exec got together with a marketing guru and decided that they could still advertise a rate of $29.95 or $34.95 (soon to be $37.95) and hide the FUSF pass through.
Let's put it this way, if you buy a candy bar from a store for $1 (the advertised price of the candy bar) you'll get charged sales tax, no biggie. But what if when you were checking out the store clerk said on top of this there's a candy bar storage fee as it costs a lot for him to put candy bars on the shelf and his rent just went up he's just going to pass this cost on to the consumer. So he still advertises the candy bar for $1 but after sales tax and this "pass through" fee you end up paying $1.87 (.07 tax and .80 pass through fee).
I'm surprised that someone hasnt sue'd verizon on this yet for false advertising... | | |
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