{"id":190213,"date":"2009-12-21T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/21\/someone-else-who-tries-to-f-us-like-a-bitch\/"},"modified":"2009-12-21T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T14:11:00","slug":"someone-else-who-tries-to-f-us-like-a-bitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/21\/someone-else-who-tries-to-f-us-like-a-bitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Else Who Tries to F%$# Us Like a Bitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not kind of bummed that I <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/what-does-matthew-g-saroff-look-like.html\">riffed on that scene in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Pulp Fiction<\/span> yesterday<\/a>, because there are so many people who want to f%$# us all like a bitch.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point, Verizon, who is claiming to the FCC that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/epicenter\/2009\/12\/verizon-ftc-etfs\">charging exorbitant cancellation fees should be supported because it helps the poor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Verizon defended its early termination charges for cellphone contracts Friday, telling federal regulators that the high fees help the poor by making it more affordable for them to access the mobile internet.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Communications Commission asked the nation\u2019s largest wireless carrier earlier this month to explain why it had raised the fees for breaking a mobile phone service contract to $350 for its smartphones. In a response that gave no ground to an increasingly active FCC, Verizon said the fees were a necessary and good way to subsidize expensive smartphones so that users don\u2019t have to pay for the hardware up front, so long as they sign a two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>That arrangement \u201cenables many more consumers, including those of more limited means, access to a range of exciting, state of the art broadband services and capabilities (.pdf),\u201d Verizon VP Kathleen Grillo wrote. \u201cThe company\u2019s pricing structure therefore promotes the national goal of fostering the greater adoption and use of mobile broadband services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Verizon raised the fees in November, with a $10 discount for each month of the service contract fulfilled for smartphones. Even so, if a customer cancels on the last day of their 2-year contract, they\u2019d have to pay Verizon $120 for early termination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears that in Verizon&#8217;s eyes, we all look like bitches that they really <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">really<\/span> want to f%$#\u2026\u2026\u2026Without Lube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not kind of bummed that I riffed on that scene in Pulp Fiction yesterday, because there are so many people who want to f%$# us all like a bitch. Case in point, Verizon, who is claiming to the FCC that charging exorbitant cancellation fees should be supported because it helps the poor: Verizon defended &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1067,970,969,1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-communications","category-corruption","category-evil","category-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}