[BREAKING] Verizon Wireless cancels $2.00 fee.

[loki993]

Talk about a short lived policy. Verizon Wireless just decided to pull the plug on their new $2.00 fee. The customers have spoken and the FCC threats were heard loud and clear.

There you have it folks. The fee is gone and it's business as usual.



Source: Jeff Kagen / VZW

what was the deal with the FCC? threats?

I ran into a few of the guys behind this too...

Then I found the main culprit...

...pretty sure we're safe from two dollar fees in the future :big smile:

Geschickt mit meinem Galaxy Nexus aus Deutschland

Who is that guy? hes a bollywood actor isn't he? Are those movies actually any good? I kinda want to see them just for those 2 clips lol

 

[tgyberg]

I for one am bummed. I was looking so forward to giving the big red cash cow more of my money. Maybe I will just send them $2.00 every month out of love!

 

[guidot]

This is good news for the time being.

If you are uncomfortable posting something in here that is family friendly, then don't post.

Thank you.

Sent from my rooted, safestrapped, and ROM'd XT862

 

[Sydman]

Makes me wonder if things like this are done just to try and hype up their "customer loving" image. Make up some crazy fee, well knowing your customers will go crazy, just so you can magically reverse it and look like the hero. And say "we listen to our customers", they new before even putting this option out there people would lose their cool about it. I love big red and wouldn't even leave it the fee had stayed, I just don't like people pissing on my leg and telling me it's raining.

 

[gadgetrants]

Makes me wonder if things like this are done just to try and hype up their "customer loving" image. Make up some crazy fee, well knowing your customers will go crazy, just so you can magically reverse it and look like the hero. And say "we listen to our customers", they new before even putting this option out there people would lose their cool about it.

You my friend are brilliant AND devious. You need to get a job in PR, you fit right in. But what happened to "family friendly?" LOL

-Matt

 

[ilikemoneygreen]

You my friend are brilliant AND devious. You need to get a job in PR, you fit right in. But what happened to "family friendly?" LOL

-Matt

lol, Its friendly enough for my family :rofl2:.

 

[rherron]

It's only going to get worse as more and more industries become oligarchies.

Back in the day when you had 20-30 big comapnies (and lots of smaller ones) fighting each other, they'd never think of passing off fee's like these to the customers to make a quick quarterly increase. No competition? Well, not much keeping them from doing so.

What you going to do, go to Sprint / AT&T? (if you can get out of contract)

It's the sad state of our conssumerist economy. Can we get some Capitalism back maybe? Or is the government doing it's job as a counterwight "socialism"?

I don't want to start a flame thing, so I'll say this and not post anything more. As a former history teacher, comments such as yours bother me.

An oligarchy is a form of government where power rests in the hands of a few people (royalty, elites, etc.). Industries/businesses don't become oligarchies. Industries/businesses become oligopolies (few businesses dominate a segment of the economy). There have always been oligopolies -- think Coke and Pepsi or McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's or the auto industry.

Some industries/businesses become monopolies.

"Back in the day" (until 1982) the only phone service available in the US was with the Bell system -- a nationally sanctioned monopoly. So back in the day, people wouldn't have done anything if they wanted a telephone. Ma Bell was the only game in town. There was no competition and, adjusted for inflation, people paid through the nose for phone service. Into the 1980s people were still paying a monthly lease on the phone device itself (they monopolized that too) as well as paying for the only telephone service available. Even the 1982 breakup wasn't exactly the end of the monopoly, but it was the beginning of the end. Ma Bell was split into seven regional Baby Bells.

"Can we get some capitalism back?" I don't really understand that. Verizon was attempting to do what all capitalist ventures seek to do -- make more money.

The government socialism counterweight? I don't really understand what you're saying there. I guess the implication is that government regulation of business/industry on behalf of consumers is socialist? Is that it? Do you watch the news at all? Do you know why Occupy Wall Street happened? Are you aware of the historic disparity of wealth in this country, and the vast share of wealth held by the top couple per cent?

In the end, Verzion voluntarily dumped the fee because of the consumer backlash and a calculus that the ill-will it engendered would cost them more money in the long-run than they would get with the $2.00 fee. If that's not capitalism what is?

 

[DF Smod]

Let's keep politics off of the forum please, thanks

 

[benb1974]

No one year contracts, no unlimited data, and whatever else Verizon has done this year, and the uproar is over a $2 fee. Hilarious

 

[DroidMastar2]

I would have left verizon over this $2.00 charge... on principal alone... and I pay $120 a month for unlimited everything with them... But I'll be damned if I will agree to outright paying to pay my bill.

 

[713King]

From what I read on another forum was about why they decided to do this. They were talking about how VISA, Master Card etc.. they have raised their fees for every use, something about a new legislation that was passed that made the debit card companies raise their fees to who ever uses them, and Verizon was actually trying to help and bypass by doing e-check and auto pay.

 

[rherron]

Why don't they introduce a policy saying "Verizon will reduce your bill by $2.00 per month if you use the following methods of payment"? Wouldn't that be something?

Never gonna happen.