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NY Wrests $1 Million From Verizon Wireless
netbuzz writes "Unlimited really means unlimited, even in advertising. So says the New York State Attorney General's Office in squeezing a $1 million settlement out of Verizon Wireless for disconnecting 13,000 of its customers who had the temerity to believe that the unlimited service they were promised came with unlimited service. Verizon's statement explaining the settlement is a gem, too."
Eighty dollars per person. That'll make a big impact. Take that, Verizon!
Floating face-down in a river of regret...and thoughts of you...
Geez I wish I could be a corporate spin doctor like that. With my skills -- I could be a Hundredaire!!
Do not mock my vision of impractical footwear
All they had to do was turn one of their execs upside down and shake the change out of his pants.
Sheesh.
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
But hell, you expect thieves and con men to tell the truth in a contract? I mean, the agreement is about their LIES to begin with!
there! right there is the essence of wisdom for today.
Anyone demanding a contract or agreement is a thief and needs to be treated as such.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Holy crap, that's messed up. Let me count the ways you can't use your Internet connection:
(1) No Nintendo Wii, XBox 360, or PS3 (you bad person!)
(2) No legally purchased music from iTunes or [Doesn't]PlayForSure service.
(3) No legally watching television or movies from iTunes, Vongo, or MovieLink. (why oh why would you want to do that?
(4) No listening to your favorite net-radio station. (Get yer' self a transistor radio, cheapskate!)
(5) No watching YouTube. (*gasp!*)
(6) No watching of Flash movies or playing of Flash games
(7) No playing World of Warcraft
(8) Don't do anything with your connection, ever. Just pay Verizon lots of dough.
And by don't do anything, I am referring to the fact that the rest of the agreement also makes it improper to:
(9) No Linux ISOs for you, you dirty, bearded Unix hippie!
(10) No online backups of your important data. (You don't need those office documents, do you?)
(11) No downloading Windows patches. (Too much data, ya' know.)
(12) No downloading any large patch, ever. (Remember, 100MB an hour is a LOT. *scoff*)
(12) No getting infected with a virus because you didn't install the patch you weren't supposed to install.
(13) Just unplug your network cable and pay Verizon money. Lots of money. Hey, it's unlimited as long as you don't use it! All the data transfer you can possible not consume! Unlimited! Yay!
Come on, is Dr. Evil the NYAG? That's not going to deter Verizon one bit.
The term unlimited means no limits.
There's no way to change the definition no matter what *legalsleeze* you throw at it.
If it's not unlimited, you can't use the term.
Just like most chocolate flavored cereals, if not made using real chocolate, have to say "chocolatey"..
Maybe they need to have the term "unlimitedey" or "unlimitedlike" or "pseudounlimited" instead.
Who is general failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?
On a cell phone, 167MB/day is painful. When I go to Blockbuster and my wife asks me to check the comments/rating of a movie on IMDB via my cell phone, I cringe. It's painful. 167MB/day? The Verizon T.O.S. should be rewritten to say, "If you download more than 5GB per month, you are assumed to be stupid and your account will be terminated."