Verizon Wireless sues FCC over 700MHz auction
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By Steve Ragan Sep 14, 2007, 18:04 GMT
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pitiful. boycott verizon. please, take your verizon phone number over to t-mobile, at&t...anyone.
What about a class action lawsuit on behalf of all US wireless customers for damages caused by the delays this creates. if people had a choice they could save money, but because of this they may have to wait months if not years.
Verizon, like all other dictators monopolies hates democracy and freedom. They want to maintain absolute control of our property, and charge us for using it in just the ways they want at a price they set.
They really shouldn't be thought of as a phone company, but rather as an Anti-American regime that has previously and foolishly been granted control over a portion of property that belongs solely and exclusively to all Americans, and not to their blood-sucking corporation. The constitution does not say 'We the coporation'.
I apologize for having sugar-coated my comments.
We all knew it was coming! These stupid telecomm companies think they can do anything they want to screw the American public. We the consumers should stand up to our freedoms and go sue the hell out of Verizon and any other telecomm companies that comes in and try to stop free open access and the right to choice. Screw these telecomm companies and their monopolistic ways.... it needs to end and end now.
If Verizon pursues this course I will take great delight in canceling my own contract with them, and the 5 business lines that I also have with them.
Maybe we consumers should file a class action lawsuit against companies like Verizon claiming unfair business practices and monopolistic predatory practices. Using the courts to fight these tactics might have some affect but only if enough consumers really want the change.
I have only one verizon datacard left. I support the telcos in finally building out the fiber we should have had 3 years ago but this is insane. The sad part is that they must be doing ths as it is more than likely that google will put up the cash needed for the auction which will firmly answer the put up or shutup clause. They just can't stand to loose any more ground as with sufficient capital structure any new entrant in wireless that takes part in the 700Mhz auction will have a complete leg up on the telcos as they see their wireline services Die and most of their other business monopolies get attacked by the likes of L3, the cable companies and others.
VZ things they can continue overcharge the masses. They have been able to so far as their lobby's force is strong the good part is that A little hate of the way the telcos have been ripping people off by many is swinging the favor back to the people.
Boycott VZ. I have only 2 months left in contract then its hello ATT. Sure I don't trust ATT at all either bbut the lesser of the 2 is always better.
Screw Verizon. A boycott and class action lawsuit sound like good ideas, if for nothing else but the PUBLICITY it would generate.
I should be the rightful owner or renter. If someone else needs to share,they should be able to present a bill to them for it's use.
This sort of attitude by VZ allows me not to ever use them again. Sprint, here I come.
I've been debating getting a cellphone for awhile now. I despise all the cell companies on ethical grounds, but I really need a phone.
AT&T was the cheapest option available for me, but until now, AT&T was rock bottom as for as ethics was concerned for me. Verizon has now sunk even lower.
Guess what Verizon? I'm never buying from you now. Ever.
From reading these comments. I bet these are the same people who download music for free, buy boot-leg DVDs and so on. You people need to understand that this Google company that is pushing so heavy on the FCC to free up everything, has profit insight as well.
So I guess this is Robinhood, steal from the rich and give to the poor, only the poor here isn't all that poor.
So I guess Google is in the buinsess for 'free'!
Its funny how people pick sides when they know little about whats really going on with a topic.
let the critic that knows 'what's going on' enlighten us. until then, BOOOOOOOOOOO verizon! (on face value mind you).
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The problem is phone services have become somewhat of a utility like water or power and the government have allowed companies, who's entire purpose for existence is to make money, total control over who can and cannot connect to their service. Sadly, their doing everything on their own terms, for example power companies are regulated by government extensively, thats what we need for wireless carriers. I only pray that VS doesn't totally screw the FCC over with the court system.
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Who needs 700mhz when 700tHz is better...
700mHZ = longer range = fewer towers = less operating cost = more money potential for wireless carriers.
Is the tHZ band even suitable for data? I would imagine not.
Verizon rather have bad PR than try to compete fair and square in an open environment. If the goverment is 'overregulating' is because greedy companies like Verizon have used lack of regulation to screw customers with locked devices, devices with downgraded features and sky-high termination fees.
Boycott Verizon.
What's with all the belly aching? Haven't Corporations been pulling this for decades? Don't oil companies and coal companies ruin our beautiful planet everyday and then sell us our own resources. What about loggers and paper producers, and a whole list of other greed driven oppurtunistic
mega corps., yet you whine and moan about one petty little company *shrugs*. If you think switching to AT&T(NSA-Telecom) is the answer, then you are a sucker and PT Barnum is proven correct again. The real answer is to march on Washington on mass and take back our government, from the lobbyists and the secrets merchants and all those you think they 'rule' us and not 'work' for us.
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