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You wake up early, you pick up your iPhone and check your VZ-Connect page, you got 7 VZ-Likes on the cat video you posted, you would have gotten more, but a corporate censor found it too popular and throttled it. Not for the first time, you find yourself yearning for the days of Facebook. But Verizon was named the exclusive backbone carrier and service provider by a massive merger. Facebook died almost instantly when nobody could access the once popular site when Verizon demanded a $10 billion per year fee to give Facebook access to "fast," i.e. standard speed, lanes. Verizon quickly replaced Facebook with VZ-Connect, which was not subject to throttling.
You need to send Aunt Martha a thank you note for the sweater she sent you for your birthday. So you log on to VZ-Banking to check your balance. Aunt Martha is half a country away and the long distance charges for an email to her will be in the hundreds of dollars. Your balance is low, but you keep the message down to just a few words to keep the costs down.
A pile of mail is in the corner and you dread your Verizon bill. Opening it you see the usual $200 base charge, along with TTY charges, Baseline services taxes to provide internet to families on assistance. The netuse fee has gone up again, now $73.42 for a month. The fee is needed to pay some guy's salary at Verizon, whose primary duties are to play Candy Crush. But what you really dread are the long distance charges, email in the same zip code is still free, but a per mile charge for email outside of the zip code adds up quickly.
You are tempted to log on to VZ-Chatter and post a complaint, but last time you complained about your Verizon bill your fees for your small business website's accessibility to audiences was spiked by 40 percent.
On the bright side, Obama was impeached. Makes it all worth it, somehow.
You need to send Aunt Martha a thank you note for the sweater she sent you for your birthday. So you log on to VZ-Banking to check your balance. Aunt Martha is half a country away and the long distance charges for an email to her will be in the hundreds of dollars. Your balance is low, but you keep the message down to just a few words to keep the costs down.
A pile of mail is in the corner and you dread your Verizon bill. Opening it you see the usual $200 base charge, along with TTY charges, Baseline services taxes to provide internet to families on assistance. The netuse fee has gone up again, now $73.42 for a month. The fee is needed to pay some guy's salary at Verizon, whose primary duties are to play Candy Crush. But what you really dread are the long distance charges, email in the same zip code is still free, but a per mile charge for email outside of the zip code adds up quickly.
You are tempted to log on to VZ-Chatter and post a complaint, but last time you complained about your Verizon bill your fees for your small business website's accessibility to audiences was spiked by 40 percent.
On the bright side, Obama was impeached. Makes it all worth it, somehow.