lxAstrosxl
Premium
join:2000-10-13
Carol Stream, IL
clubs: | I'm not surprised.
Once Verizon was a snake... and still is a snake. I never liked them and never will, they are sooo two faced. They only care about money not the customers satisfaction. |
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pokesph
It Is Almost Fast
Premium
join:2001-06-25
Sacramento, CA
clubs:
 ·Comcast
| ...Of Course
why would they keep their prices the same or attempt to accommodate more potential customers when it's just easier to raise rates and limit who can have their service....
what is wrong with this large providers? do they not want customers? it sure boggles my mind.
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Bill
Light Up The Halo
Premium,VIP
join:2001-12-09
clubs:
| Still cheaper...
That's still cheaper than some third-party providers in Verizon areas.
We can get the $29.95 prices, like regular Verizon customers, after we've signed a 1 year contract. But if we don't sign it, the price goes up to $49.95 and we have to pay a $60 activation/setup fee.
Luckily, I love my ISP and it doesn't bother me to sign a 1 year contract with them.
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ColdFiltered
join:2005-01-25
Atlanta, GA | Poor non-Fios people
Gotta eat that Verizon dirt and help pay for your buddy's Fios.  |
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ColdFiltered
join:2005-01-25
Atlanta, GA | reply to Bill
Re: Still cheaper...
Heck, its cheaper than my $50-55/month basic, non-upgradeable service. |
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
 ·PHONE POWER
 ·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T CallVantage
·Time Warner VOIP
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to ColdFiltered
Re: Poor non-Fios people
They're just doing the same thing SBC has been doing forever - offering a big incentive to keep people locked in a contract. It keeps people from taking limited time offers from the cable company, or making snap decisions to switch ISPs.
It's interesting that the cable industry takes such a polar opposite approach. I suppose cable is cheaper to provision, that might be part of it.
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thender2
Glamour Profession
Premium
join:2004-05-16
Staten Island, NY
| Let the DSL user with..
3000/768, unlimited transfer, ten day retention on most usenet binary groups(without bandwidth caps or transfer limits), and an ISP that'll give you a free wireless router all for under $40/month cast the first stone.
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Mactron
el camino Real
Premium
join:2001-12-16
CM94sv
| Verizon (VZ) will muck it up almost every time
They (VZ) will muck it up almost every time you communicate with their Moron CS Reps. If you have VZ DSL count yourself lucky. At all costs do not try to upgrade, get a price change, ETC. Never, never, call unless you have so serious a problem that they couldn't possibly make it any worse, because odds are they will!!! You WILL spend days and MANY phone calls unraveling their mess. !!!
Signed,
Another totally satisfied VZ customer /sarcasm
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lflarry1
Analog Is Not A Myth
Premium
join:2003-07-15
THE VOID
1 edit | Verizon DSL price changing options
If you are an existing "Verizon Freedom bundled" customer you don't have to change anything. The Verizon online part of the bill will have an $8 dollar discount instead of the $5 dollar discount that is now on the bill.
I think Verizon lost some customers when they started charging the FUSF fee on the modem and also on the POTs service. I was under the impression that the idea behind the FUSF was to have a money fund to bring telephone service to everyone regardless of the distance or conditions. A fund to be used only if the phone company had to do any kind of expensive non-standard installation and so on...... And not charging the customer an astronomical rate.
I can see phone service being important to people at an affordable price but, could never quite figure out why broadband fits into this category. Broadband is more like a luxury than a necessity. Dialup is slow but afterall it still works in this context. The extra fees really,IMO, don't apply on the modem. Verizon is slower than ool and if they keep on tacking on more fees and restrictions,more people are going to switch to ool. All I see is another self-defeating bad management decision made by clueless,greedy upper executives. When it fails they'll all blame each other,industry conditions, or the economy.
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Rickez
Goinginsane
join:2000-09-02
Three Rivers, MA | Distance
"they no longer qualify for tiers they already have (thousands of feet tacked on to their loop length)."
This has happened to me, total bs. |
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xdeadhead
220, 221, Whatever It Takes.
Premium
join:2000-11-08
Mechanicsburg, PA
1 edit | this just in....
we suck.
I work in the industry:
i work for the hell that is verizon(pronounced "for-ivan") |
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PZip
@comcast.net
| reply to lflarry1
Re: Verizon DSL price changing options
One interesting thing about the FUSF fee on the DSL service is that it's not a regulated fee.
Sure VerizonOnline is charged FUSF fees by the people who provide VOL the actual lines (Verizon BroadBand VzBB) but VOL is not required to charge this fee to their customers, in fact they arent supposed to collect it as a fee. Read their info on the FUSF fee you'll see that they are "passing through" the cost they are being charged for the line by VzBB.
I thought that's what the base price was for, instead some greedy exec got together with a marketing guru and decided that they could still advertise a rate of $29.95 or $34.95 (soon to be $37.95) and hide the FUSF pass through.
Let's put it this way, if you buy a candy bar from a store for $1 (the advertised price of the candy bar) you'll get charged sales tax, no biggie. But what if when you were checking out the store clerk said on top of this there's a candy bar storage fee as it costs a lot for him to put candy bars on the shelf and his rent just went up he's just going to pass this cost on to the consumer. So he still advertises the candy bar for $1 but after sales tax and this "pass through" fee you end up paying $1.87 (.07 tax and .80 pass through fee).
I'm surprised that someone hasnt sue'd verizon on this yet for false advertising... |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
| reply to lxAstrosxl
Re: I'm not surprised.
said by lxAstrosxl  :Once Verizon was a snake... and still is a snake. I never liked them and never will. Got that right. I hate these guys, and have the misfortune to live in their territory, where I get almost non-existent service. |
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dp
Go Steelers
Premium,MVM
join:2000-12-08
Greensburg, PA
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| This is for all Customers?
I haven't received my email yet regarding any price increase. Is this for all existing customers? I've had VOL DSL for over 4 years now. When I first signed up, my commitment was for a 1 year period which I've obviously fulfilled. So, am I correct in saying they will raise my price unless I agree to another 1 year commitment?
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jsimmons
Premium,MVM
join:2000-04-24
Falls Church, VA
| reply to Rickez
Re: Distance
said by Rickez :"they no longer qualify for tiers they already have (thousands of feet tacked on to their loop length)." This has happened to me, total bs. LOL....
I have 2 phone lines at my address, both terminating at the same CO. Been running Covad DSL 1536/384 for 4 years... Rock solid. Decided to try VZ DSL on the other pair ($29.95 hard to pass up)... But after installation, only got about 700/128. Complained about the speed provisioning and requested higher. They refused saying I was "too far from CO" to qualify for 1536/384. Needless to say I canceled within my 30 day satisfaction window.
To me DSL is a stopgap technology the phone companies are milking until they can get higher speed pipes to the home. There are just too many problems with the "last mile" antequated copper network. So unless they get fiber to the house, I agree the Cable companies will be the telco of the future.
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ColdFiltered
join:2005-01-25
Atlanta, GA | reply to ColdFiltered
Re: Poor non-Fios people
Yeah, too bad BellSouth does care about keeping people. They are the most expensive of the bunch. It would be nice if SBC bought them and offered $29.95/month DSL in Atlanta. |
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anObviousPloy
@optonline.net
| reply to Rickez
Re: Distance
This is an obvious ploy at saying "The days of 29.99 all you can eat dsl at whatever speed are numbered." You people need to do your homework on our economy. EVERYTHING is going up: gas prices, your cabletv bill, your internet access, etc etc etc... this is revenge for thousands of you dsl customers getting voip and switching your verizon service to "basic"... They're gonna get a few dollars back.. face it- your sorta stuck... you CAN go over to optimum online's not guaranteed bandwitdth and hope it solves all your problems, or maybe, dare I say get FIOS 5mbit for aobut $2 more for 5mbit?
As far as I know, (AFIK) its not locked into a contract and they gotta do alot more costly provisioning for that puppy...than they ever did for dsl. |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to pokesph
Re: ...Of Course
said by pokesph :what is wrong with this large providers? do they not want customers? it sure boggles my mind. I believe it is just plain arrogance on the part of the company. Verizon (whom I have had dealings with) seems to think that they are the only option and have the "high and mighty" attitude.
"If you don't like it, go elsewhere" seems to be the new mantra of a lot of companies lately and it is very disturbing. |
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Rickez
Goinginsane
join:2000-09-02
Three Rivers, MA
·Vonage
·Comcast
·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to jsimmons
Re: Distance
"I have 2 phone lines at my address, both terminating at the same CO. Been running Covad DSL 1536/384 for 4 years... Rock solid. Decided to try VZ DSL on the other pair ($29.95 hard to pass up)... But after installation, only got about 700/128. Complained about the speed provisioning and requested higher."
Yup this is me 100%, well minus the covad part. only get about 700/128. Not to mention between my business line and home line I spend 0ver $150 a month with Verizon. |
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Cyberian75
join:2004-03-16
Beaverton, OR
1 edit | Got milk???
I suspect that they're trying to milk their customers as much as they can to make up the loss by FiOS roll-out and before their non-committed customers switch over to it.
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