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2nd price increase in a month
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 11:06:23 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Robert Lee <robertslee () verizon net> Reply-To: <robertslee () verizon net> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:21:56 -0500 To: <dave () farber net> Subject: 2nd price increase in a month Apparently we don¹t have to wait forever to see if killing PSTN competition will result in higher PSTN prices (for those of us who were in doubt): I have the $29.95 year contract (I never saw it or signed it) and one month later was hit with the 11% increase. Apparently the 1 year contract does not include a price guarantee for the client, a first for one year contracts, I imagine. But to be fair, I never saw the contract. Also, apparently the cost to not advertise the useless phone that I have with them is going up (another piece of bad news). It costs more to NOT list a number than it costs to have them list your number. If there truly is a cost to them to not list your number I have to wonder if it is based on the number of people in charge of not listing your number, the number of books it is not listed in, etc. I wonder if they will come up with a charge for NOT sending me to Bermuda for my vacation And a charge for NOT sending me to see the Broadway show of my choice Or do the NOTs have to have something to do with things they could in the normal course of events DO? The NOT WORLD is a tricky place. = = = Verizon Communications on Friday confirmed it will raise the price of its DSL subscriptions for month-to-month users by $3 to drive customers toward cheaper one-year contracts. http://tinyurl.com/4nltu Beginning March 22, the nation's largest phone company said it will increase prices for its non-binding subscribers from $34.95 a month to $37.95. Verizon said the bump is meant to persuade monthly customers to commit to its one-year plan, which costs $29.95 but penalizes subscribers for canceling prematurely. Verizon gives the monthly customers the $29.95 rate only if they subscribe to the company's unlimited local and long-distance phone plan--$44.95 to $59.95 per month, depending on the state--or the unlimited local package, ranging from $21.95 to $32.95. "There are pressures on margins from Wall Street that they continually face," said Patrick Mahoney, an analyst at market research firm The Yankee Group. "As broadband growth steadies, they need to show continually increased revenues." The increase comes soon after Verizon raised DSL by up to 11 percent in some regions, citing a "tax recovery fee." The increases would only be in effect until the Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act goes into effect this November. Robert Lee ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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