Verizon To Pay $25M For Years of 'Mystery Fees'

Ponca City writes "The Washington Post reports that the FCC has reached a record $25 million settlement with Verizon Wireless over the company's wrongly charging subscribers 'mystery' Internet fees over the past several years — the largest settlement in FCC history. With the action, Verizon Wireless's total costs associated with false data fees reached $77.8 million, one of the largest payouts for false business practices in the communications services industry. 'People shouldn't find mystery fees when they open their phone bills — and they certainly shouldn't have to pay for services they didn't want and didn't use,' says FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. 'In these rough economic times, every $1.99 counts.' Verizon Wireless said in a news release that its overcharges were inadvertent. 'We accept responsibility for those errors, and apologize to our customers who received accidental data charges on their bills.'"

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Re:An insult of a fine

[geekoid]

A) It's only customers with a specific type of plan So less then all their customers. If only we had a number..oh wait we do. 15 million. people effected.

B) It's wan't always re occurring. So NOT 3 years
C) most of them were cause from apps people loaded n the phone, not verizon.

If your number where any more wrong, they would be letters.