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- Andy.D, on 10/25/2007, -3/+27Does that mean Comcast is next?
- vulcanius, on 10/25/2007, -2/+25Verizon's new marketing materials.......
"Unlimited EV-DO*"
* Please see fine print at double asterisk below.
** (super small print) Please consult the plan details on page 27.
Pg 27. Current limitations and restrictions on mobile communications require an FOIA submission, please allow 4 months for request processing. Forms may be found online.
Online.... 404, please contact customer service. - Jagwire2k, on 10/25/2007, -0/+15Congrats to the 13,000 ex-verizon customers who are about to receive a $76 check...
- Fallout911, on 10/25/2007, -1/+101 Million?
That's petty cash for those mother *****. - Cyberen, on 10/25/2007, -0/+71 million? Fine them a billion and it might hurt.
- raada, on 10/25/2007, -0/+7That was bad marketing and a scam. If I pay for a certain Internet speed with a monthly fee I want to be able to use that. I probably never will use all of it, but I should be able to and absolutely not get charged extra for it. It is like renting a car with unlimited mileage, and then saying you can drive unlimited miles if you drive less than 10 miles. SCAM!
Anyone who was overcharged should get money and penalty back. Anyone stuck in a contract should be freed. - iseth, on 10/25/2007, -0/+7I'm going to need to read more into this. We have one of their cards to use for on-call staff for our hospital. They need to be able to use it, potentially for long periods of time with RDP, etc. We can't have it cut off on us!
- inactive, on 10/24/2007, -1/+8take that!
- DavidYeah, on 10/25/2007, -0/+6FINALLY. I got scammed on this a few years ago. It's good to see a company with deceptive marketing claims being held accountable. Serves them right. Maybe one day we'll be able to buy a product and not have to dig through a few dozen pages of legalese to make sure we're not getting screwed.
- twitchit, on 10/25/2007, -0/+6when will they ever learn that restrictions only piss people off
- Lex148, on 10/25/2007, -0/+51 million, that’s it, Come on 1 million is a fart in the wind to Verizon
- HerrEisenheim, on 10/25/2007, -0/+5FINALLY! For anyone wondering, the "unlimited plan" was actually limited to 5GB. As soon as you went over 5GB in a month, they cut your service. They'd also cut your service if you were suspected of doing anything like P2P or games like WoW. I'd never heard of them actually enforcing the latter, but the former was quite strictly enforced. How the hell 5GB ever equated to unlimited is beyond me.
- DavidYeah, on 10/25/2007, -0/+5They didn't charge extra. The way it worked is they said you had unlimited use, but limited use of HOW you could use it. You were only allowed to do data transfer, e-mail, and web browsing. So it's limiting your use after the fact, on the client software side of things instead of through a limitation on data usage. Which to me is exactly the same thing.
That means no streaming audio or video or gaming or p2p or anything. After a certain data threshold they sent me a letter saying to call them, then they put me through a 5 question quiz about how I used their service, then they cancelled me a month later. - mikehill33, on 10/25/2007, -0/+4Verizon - we never stop screwing you!
- mpn401, on 10/25/2007, -0/+4I wish they'd let me tether my old 1x phone...but apparently, even if I still pay for the minutes and the network, it's still against the TOS...
- Firehed, on 10/25/2007, -0/+4$1m fine for a multi-billion company is hardly being held accountable. The real victory here - if you can even call it that - is that they have to fix their marketing.
- Genma, on 10/25/2007, -0/+3the only difference between the two is the wording, and why verizon gets fined and comcast gets to do whatever they want, since they're smart enough to avoid being specific. technically it's the same, just one is illegal and one is not.
- nicc, on 10/24/2007, -1/+4I am not trying to be inflamatory, but WHERE does Comcast state their internet access is unlimited? they dont do it on TV, they dont do it on their website and they dont do it on their junk mailings either.
I know they USED to a few years ago, but I have not seen "unlimited" on any of their ads in years. - psykiv, on 10/25/2007, -0/+3Dugg for FOIA submission
- vulcanius, on 10/24/2007, -0/+2Check your coverage at http://evdomaps.com/
- DavidYeah, on 10/24/2007, -0/+2That is one ad. Others don't say "internet browsing email intranet" for example:
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/07/imag ... http://www.nadtdecblog.org/Files/VerizonCard_small ... - alphacoder, on 10/25/2007, -0/+2What a fine! Imagine if they'd shown breasts during halftime?
So deceiving customers on a nationwide scale amounts to a $1 million fine. I think if I had Verizon's revenue and contracts, that fine is just another cost of doing business. - Egress99, on 10/24/2007, -0/+1anybody know if this is a class action lawsuit?
i got ***** on this a little over a year ago. - mmacmu1, on 10/24/2007, -0/+1I got screwed on the free "test drive." Apparently, the operative word didn't apply. When I returned my phone several days before the 30 day trial period they made ME call customer support and cancel the account. They then said I had a $200+ early termination fee! I kept explaining that it was part of the free trial and the manager at the store agreed it was bogus. There was little to be done. After trying to extort me for several months with bad credit, the finally gave up when I revived a bill for like $5. I did pay this, but the point is their service is ***** and they engage in deceptive practices.
When will the government wake up and regulate these SOBs? - knightcrusader, on 10/25/2007, -0/+1You can do it on 1x and most likely they won't say anything to you about it.....
- superjunaid, on 10/24/2007, -0/+1that's what they get!
- DavidYeah, on 10/24/2007, -1/+2I disagree in part. The real victory is that they couldn't hide behind some ***** "corporate personhood" argument that claims that they have rights to free speech to deceive their customers.
- sspooner, on 10/24/2007, -0/+1No, because Comcast does not sell unlimited internet.
- psychoace, on 10/24/2007, -0/+1I remember back in the day Verizon would claim unlimited minutes for regular phone calls but if you looked at the fine print it would say "up to 800 minutes". These guys are freakin geniuses
- ridiculicious, on 10/24/2007, -0/+1"It is like renting a car with unlimited mileage, and then saying you can drive unlimited miles if you drive less than 10 miles."
Dugg for analogy. - Akadjjoel, on 10/24/2007, -0/+1What about the sprint broadband service?
- vassar, on 10/25/2007, -0/+1$1 million is CHUMP change for Verizon.
- KIERANMULLEN, on 10/25/2007, -0/+1The fine was not enough.
- cvrefugee, on 10/25/2007, -0/+1And that's why you should be on Sprint, same speeds without the BS.
- djg123, on 10/25/2007, -1/+1Based on the Old/New advert shown, I don't really see that they were that deceptive. The Old ad clearly states Unlimited for Internet browsing, email and intranet. Its very specific what it can be used for. There are no little * going off to fine print, its right there in bold.
- radiopolice, on 10/24/2007, -1/+1i have verizon and all that v-cast/evdo internet surfing is slow. for what they offer it should be fast, reliable, and cheap. screw the $1M i wheres the beef?
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