All paid for by special government "local franchise" gifts protecting the incumbent carriers from competition.
Fascism.
down with Verizon and their evil plots
They must want to go bankrupt and join MCI in the trash bin of history...............
I can trade in this 3g Verizon phone on something from AT&T, T-Mobile or another carrier this afternoon.
I’ll take my 5 family members with me too.
Want to watch, Verizon?
I shouldn't have to say it, but just in case... AT&T is not an option.
I shouldn't have to say it, but just in case... AT&T is not an option.
I switch from Verizon on Sept 30, 2013, BECAUSE of this.
Are we saying we’d disagree that a company owned by devoutly religious folks would have the right to discriminate against use of their service for porn sites, sites serving/promoting same sex marriage, not wearing shirts or shoes when using the service, or anything else that went against their beliefs?
What are the criteria here?
Verizon is totally evil, found that out long ago and cancelled all service.
What in the hell is that? I’m not calling them because I don’t use them and my cell phone is an AT&T product.
Maybe this is some kind of sales technique to get me to call and take their service??
Don’t be too quick to call Verizon leftist or liberal. They make it a policy to go to war with the CWA every contract. They’ve had some nasty strikes and haven’t ever backed off when the CWA went thuggish. Verizon wants to make and keep as much money for its shareholders as possible. If that means out thugging the union, doing Big Brother’s work, or charging people to use its pathways and denying service to those who don’t pay then so be it. I remember 40 years ago after the Yom Kippur War and first oil boycott, after Nixon went Defcon 3 the 6th Fleet left Naples with half full fuel bunkers because the Saudis told Exxon Italy not to provide fuel for the Navy. During a Senate hearing afterwards Proxmire asked an Exxon rep if this was true. The rep. calmly said “ Yes.” Proxmire went ballistic. The words unpatriotic, traitor, treason resounded in the hearing room. The rep calmly responded, “ Senator Proxmire, the Exxon Corporation flies 37 flags and owes allegiance to none.” We live in a nation dominated by BIGs. Govt, Business Labor, you name it. I don’t know how to change it. Maybe the Tea Party shoud find areas on common interest with the saner elements of OWS.
Let’s JC Penny, Verizon! Put them out of business.
Verizon is currently the poster child of corporate fascism.
They are apparently in bed with every legislative body in the US from congress to your local city council member. The “pillow talk” or under the sheets payola enables them to do what they do with their plans and services.
Combine that with often better service versus lesser service and reliability of other wireless providers enables them to be the poster child of corporate fascism.
This has nothing to do with evil or morals or getting in bed with the government. The question is does Verizon have the right to charge for the amount of data that is carried over its network.
The amount of data that can be carried over a network is limited so the question is how to ration it in a way that maximizes Verizon’s revenue. Just like any other business. Why should you be allowed to have a continuos stream of HD videos, music, and games that hog bandwidth and be charged the same as someone who sends email and occasionally surfs the web?
Someone has to pay for the usage. Verizon is trying to get the free riders like Netflix to pay instead of charging all of the network users including non Netflix customers more.
Verizon would have a better case if it didn’t have monopoly agreements in most cities it serves. But then that is a local political issue that you cannot blame on Verizon.
This really sucks. If they were to implement this, I’d heartily approve the rest of the world blackholing ever single subnet they own. Their own customers will demand they stop.
———lawyer Helgi Walker———
A Breastister