 batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
join:2003-02-06
Netcong, NJ
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| Whaaaa, whaaaaa. quote:
The price of long-distance service is not regulated at the state or federal level, a policy intended to spur competition. Phone companies can charge customers a minimum fee for not using long-distance service.
You people demanded deregulation and you got it.
Ma Bell is dead and yet the people bitch.
Switch long-distance companies and quit your bitching. |
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| this is very much like a MUG (Minimum Usage Guarantee), and if you go over the 40 minutes this $2 equates to you're fine. Verizon also gets something called a Prescubscribed Interexchange Carrier Charge (PICC)that is billed when you DO select an LD carrier which used to be $3.23 per line. Multiply this $2 by the number of customers x 12 months, and this is a HUGE profit center for VZ. They have to pay for that FIOS somehow. LOL.
Due to increased competition, VZ obviously feels the need to recoup some losses. $24 a year seems steep to me, and almost equates to an additional month of local basic service. |
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 signmeuptooLove those still alivePremium
join:2001-11-22
NanoParticle
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Ah, I see your still up to your anger baiting tactics in threads! People have a justification to be unhappy. I think you just love to take viewpoints that are meant to PO people. |
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batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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Netcong, NJ Reviews:
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| said by signmeuptoo:Ah, I see your still up to your anger baiting tactics in threads! People have a justification to be unhappy. I think you just love to take viewpoints that are meant to PO people. People will bitch even when faced with the facts. If you don't like Verizon's service switch. Long-distance is deregulated pick another carrier. |
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signmeuptooLove those still alivePremium
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| That is very typical of you. Yeah right, if you don't like it don't do it. Smart solution, that is, until everyone is doing it! That isn't the solution, and you know it. Verizon sets new trends, this needs to be nipped in the bud.
I grow weary of simple minded attitudes.
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batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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| said by signmeuptoo:That is very typical of you. Yeah right, if you don't like it don't do it. Smart solution, that is, until everyone is doing it! That isn't the solution, and you know it. Verizon sets new trends, this needs to be nipped in the bud. I grow weary of simple minded attitudes. New trends?? I make perhaps 1 long-distance call a month. 15 years ago AT&T told me I would have to pay a minimum amount to keep their service; I dropped their service. What is the big deal? I grow weary of those that lack understanding. |
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said by batterup: You people demanded deregulation and you got it. Ma Bell is dead and yet the people bitch. Switch long-distance companies and quit your bitching. They have to make up for the money they are losing on the much loved Fios rollout somehow. 
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join:2001-06-06
Panorama City, CA
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No, Ma Bell has risen from the grave. She even has her old name back...AT&T.
Through mergers and acquisitions, she's BAAAACK.
"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company."
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batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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Netcong, NJ Reviews:
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| said by MsGeek:No, Ma Bell has risen from the grave. She even has her old name back...AT&T. Through mergers and acquisitions, she's BAAAACK. "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company." Actually the AT&T name was never used. It was called the Bell System or The Phone Company.
The AT&T name was used post divestiture. |
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 SparkChaserAvatar is not a SparkPremium
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Downingtown, PA
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said by batterup: I grow weary of those that lack understanding. You must be pretty tired of yourself by now.
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patcat88
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Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to batterup
said by batterup:said by MsGeek:No, Ma Bell has risen from the grave. She even has her old name back...AT&T. Through mergers and acquisitions, she's BAAAACK. "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company." Actually the AT&T name was never used. It was called the Bell System or The Phone Company. The AT&T name was used post divestiture. But AT&T was the name of the corporation that RAN the "Bell System" right? |
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batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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Netcong, NJ Reviews:
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1 edit | said by patcat88: But AT&T was the name of the corporation that RAN the "Bell System" right? Yes AT&T was the holding company and the stock symbol was T. The new at&t is a Baby Bell that ate what was left of Ma. Verizon ate the cause of the mess MCI. Now Verizon and at&t are like families that respect each other's territory. Qwest is the runt of the litter that is kept in the attic.
Edit: It was called the Bell System after the founder of the company and inventor of the telephone. |
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1 edit | reply to batterup
stephen colbert does a good job of explaining things:
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj1Mtv9cD0I
EDIT: and Viacom does a better job of having their videos pulled from YouTube.... |
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batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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Netcong, NJ Reviews:
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| said by wwdubbia:stephen colbert does a good job of explaining things: EDIT: and Viacom does a better job of having their videos pulled from YouTube.... 
Arrrrrrrrrggghhh |
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