Verizon Plans $20 Upgrade Fee Even If You Pay Full Price For a Phone (macrumors.com)

An anonymous reader writes: According to a memo leaked by MacRumors, Verizon is planning to introduce a new $20 upgrade fee starting next week. The new $20 flat rate charge will begin next Monday, April 4, and will be applied to smartphones purchased on a Device Payment financing plan, or at full retail price. The premium will also apply to those who take advantage of Apple's new iPhone Upgrade Program. Verizon cites "increasing support costs associated with customers switching their devices" as a reason for the new fees. The new fee is in addition to the existing $40 upgrade fee for customers renewing a two-year contract with a new device.

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I switched to T-Mobile a few months ago

[Anonymous Coward]

Verizon's "baby come back" letters are pathetic.

Re:I switched to T-Mobile a few months ago

[demonlapin]

There is the small problem that there are only four widely-spoken languages in the Americas, that quite a lot of people will have to travel a long, long way to encounter more than two of them on a regular basis, and that one of them is so isolated from the European source that even native speakers will have difficulty making themselves clearly understood on more than a trivial level by speakers of only the European variety (Canadian French). Whereas Europeans can travel a relatively short distance and find themselves in a place where an entirely different language is in general use. Languages aren't all that hard, but skills that cannot be practiced without a lot of expensive travel are unlikely to be very robust.

Re:I switched to T-Mobile a few months ago

[Fly Swatter]

Get yourself an audiobook and start learning Spanish. There are plenty of people in the US to practice with. Not being able to speak Spanish is almost pathetic.

Get yourself an audiobook and start learning English. There are plenty of people in the US to practice with. Not being able to speek the primary language of a region, and planning to live in it, is pathetic.

There, FTFY.

Why, Verizon?

[Sable Drakon]

Seriously, with added fees like this, it's as if they're trying to get people to leave their service and forcing them into T-Mobile's very very welcoming arms.