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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coondoggie writes "Let's say that for whatever reason, you'd rather your telephone number not be published.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 Sixty dollars a year to keep an unpublished number unpublished?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?"
Only on slashdot would anyone even conceive that you are somehow giving up your 4th amendment right.
Idiots.
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not really, no.
Not that should charge, but to be unlisted it means they have to go around the normal automatically way of adding you. It also impact every phone book manufacturer.
" Surely marking a number as unlisted in the subscriber database is a once-off 30 activity of at most 5 minutes"
strawman, based on your ignorance. There is a surprising ton of crap involved in this. Contracts, advertising, 3rd party vendors, etc.
It's a lame, entrenched business model that made sense 60 years ago.
But it is a lot more then just flipping one bit.
I did some work for a couple of phone companies a number of yeas age.
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