Verizon Bases $5 Fee To Not Publish Your Phone Number On 'Systems and IT' Costs

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @10:18AM from the also-on-'give-us-your-money'-costs dept.

coondoggie writes "Let's say that for whatever reason, you'd rather your telephone number not be published.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 Sixty dollars a year to keep an unpublished number unpublished?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?"

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Re:Revenue Stream by JackieBrown · 2012-08-15 10:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I know reading TFA is considered bad form around these parts, but you might want to give it a shot from time to time.
Anyone on a prepaid cell phones lost a reasonable expectation of privacy, and can be tracked without warrant. If that's not a flagrant 4th amendment violation, I don't know what is.
Nice jab but you are on the wrong topic.
I guess you thought you were on this topic :
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/08/15/2129209/police-dont-need-a-warrant-to-track-your-disposable-cellphone