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Verizon Wireless To Issue $90 Million In Refunds
tekgoblin writes "Verizon Wireless had somehow been charging customers extra money on their bills for data that they actually hadn't been using. Approximately 15 million customers were affected by the billing error. According to BGR the FCC had been pressuring Verizon to respond to the hundreds of complaints that had been piling up. So Verizon's answer was to refund all of the overcharged money as soon as possible."
I don't even have a Verizon account but I feel entitled to money by proxy for the suffering they have imposed that has filtered into the shared unconscious of humanity.
As opposed to the usual error free billing errors?
But but but the FCC is a government agency! They can't possibly do anything right! The free market should have sorted everything out!
Dont worry its just pretend time now... Just pretend that either the FCC wasn't involved, or that it was the FCCs idea to do it in the first place.
Then accuse the FCC of persecuting small businesses.
You are entitled to your own opinions, not your own facts.
This is totally conjecture, but I doubt Verizon would have been so willing to issue refunds without pressure.
Hmmmm.... while I'm not sure a proof of this conjecture can be produced via rigorous mathematical analysis, any mathematician with Verizon service probably disagrees.