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Re: No ongoing fees; but it still uses up minutessaid by fAcEtIOUs:So basically you will get voice access and maybe low speed data and it won't cost Verizon anything while reducing their costs. Looks like they dropped the suggested monthly fee for the device. Guess they realized that:
user paying for the phone service (monthly - Verizon)
+ user paying broadband service (monthly - Other)
+ user paying femtocell box fee (one-time - Verizon)
+ user paying femtocell service (monthly - Verizon)
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= user gets ripped off
It would reduce costs for Verizon since their customers would be using less cell-tower bandwidth and moves the cost over to the user. So creating a monthly service fee for the box would not only increase their profit margins from the cell phone service fee, but the femtocell service fee would be almost pure profit (no costs associated).
Wonder if AT&T will realize it...
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