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Verizon Bases $5 Fee To Not Publish Your Phone Number On 'Systems and IT' Costs
coondoggie writes "Let's say that for whatever reason, you'd rather your telephone number not be published. If you are a Verizon customer, that privacy privilege will cost you $5 a month. And how does Verizon justify such a significant fee for such an insignificant service? 'The cost charged to offer unlisted phone numbers is chiefly systems and IT based,' a media relations spokesman for the company tells Network World. (Asking the same question of online customer service elicited a predictably unenlightening response.) Sixty dollars a year to keep an unpublished number unpublished? Does that seem plausible?"
What about the advertising sales the are based on the number of people listed? How did you handle that? How did you contact the publishers?
Wait, you're tiny piece as a two bit 'DBA' took a few seconds? then clearly that's all that's involved in the business.
Look past your little keyhole.
As I said, regardless it should be a cost of doing business and not a reoccurring fee. I'm just pointing out there is more to the business then throwing a flag.
I contract with a couple of Carriers write code to manage this specific thing. Granted, it was 10 years ago. I has a 200 page binder explaining all the business rules and use cases behind this.
Some of us actually deal with a large scope of business, not sit in a cube thinking the whole of the business is my little, tiny, insignificant job.
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