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Verizon, who are well known for being affordable, honest, and "with the times", has announced they're going to bring back "cable" subscriptions - you give veriz

Verizon, who are well known for being affordable, honest, and "with the times", has announced they're going to bring back "cable" subscriptions - you give verizon a flat rate, and they get you all of the streaming services, presumably for less than you'd pay for them individually. Yes, the first part is obvious facetiousness.

hedora 4y ago
I wish consumer protection laws applied to cell phone providers. I shopped around a while back, and walked into an AT&T, TMobile, and Verizon store. They all had big ass signs in the front window saying $25/month per line (with a bunch of fine print that can't be read from outside the store). Of course, none of them will honor that pricing. Also, none of them actually publish their prices. The best I got was some hand written scrawl from the the customer service person, who had memorized their pricing table. Of course, after handing the piece of paper to me, he said something like, "so that'll be $85 per line, but in practice your bill will probably be $110. I've seen some people end up with $115/month". Anyway, that's a long way of saying they can offer to pay me to subscribe to their crappy whatever service, and I'll still refuse.
- runlaszlorun 4y ago
  But you’re getting unlimited data! :)
- cebert 4y ago
  For what it’s worth I pay $25/mo on Visible, Verizon’s discount carrier, and have been quite happy.
- mdrzn 4y ago
  This sounds insane and I'm incredibly happy for the situation we have in the EU. You see "9,99€ / month" for a mobile plan? That's the full price they will take from you each month, no more. Only exception being the home fiber lines, which start at 24,99€/month but progressively increase every couple months to reach upwards of 30€/month.
  - ilyt 4y ago
    >Only exception being the home fiber lines, which start at 24,99€/month but progressively increase every couple months to reach upwards of 30€/month. I haven't seen that but I have had marketing phones where they insistently tried to upsell me on random shit ("security protection") or to increase bandwidth (I had 300Mbit/s, they wanted to sell me 600Mbit/s)
  - KomoD 4y ago
    > Only exception being the home fiber lines, which start at 24,99€/month but progressively increase every couple months to reach upwards of 30€/month. I (Sweden) haven't seen this before, where has this been used?
- DeathArrow 4y ago
  I pay 5 euros for 5G plan with unlimited calls and almost unlimited Internet. You can even take 4 plans for 2 euros each at promotion. :) And 10Gbit FTTH from the same provider is just 12 euros. :)
  - mboehm 4y ago
    Which country/provider is that?
    - DeathArrow 4y ago
      Romania / Digi
- mhb 4y ago
  Consumer Cellular FTW
- mindslight 4y ago
  At this point the only people left directly using the infrastructure companies don't care about money. For each of the infrastructure providers, there are many competitive MVNOs with prices plainly on their websites. You should be able to get a regular plan for ~$40/mo, and even a bare bones paygo for $10/3mo.
- bushbaba 4y ago
  Disagree here. T-Mobile’s advertised price is what I pay. Yes it’s with their “autopay” discount. But they’ve not had hidden fees.

hedora 4y ago

I wish consumer protection laws applied to cell phone providers. I shopped around a while back, and walked into an AT&T, TMobile, and Verizon store. They all had big ass signs in the front window saying $25/month per line (with a bunch of fine print that can't be read from outside the store). Of course, none of them will honor that pricing. Also, none of them actually publish their prices. The best I got was some hand written scrawl from the the customer service person, who had memorized their pricing table. Of course, after handing the piece of paper to me, he said something like, "so that'll be $85 per line, but in practice your bill will probably be $110. I've seen some people end up with $115/month". Anyway, that's a long way of saying they can offer to pay me to subscribe to their crappy whatever service, and I'll still refuse.

runlaszlorun 4y ago
But you’re getting unlimited data! :)
cebert 4y ago
For what it’s worth I pay $25/mo on Visible, Verizon’s discount carrier, and have been quite happy.
mdrzn 4y ago
This sounds insane and I'm incredibly happy for the situation we have in the EU. You see "9,99€ / month" for a mobile plan? That's the full price they will take from you each month, no more. Only exception being the home fiber lines, which start at 24,99€/month but progressively increase every couple months to reach upwards of 30€/month.
- ilyt 4y ago
  >Only exception being the home fiber lines, which start at 24,99€/month but progressively increase every couple months to reach upwards of 30€/month. I haven't seen that but I have had marketing phones where they insistently tried to upsell me on random shit ("security protection") or to increase bandwidth (I had 300Mbit/s, they wanted to sell me 600Mbit/s)
- KomoD 4y ago
  > Only exception being the home fiber lines, which start at 24,99€/month but progressively increase every couple months to reach upwards of 30€/month. I (Sweden) haven't seen this before, where has this been used?
DeathArrow 4y ago
I pay 5 euros for 5G plan with unlimited calls and almost unlimited Internet. You can even take 4 plans for 2 euros each at promotion. :) And 10Gbit FTTH from the same provider is just 12 euros. :)
- mboehm 4y ago
  Which country/provider is that?
  - DeathArrow 4y ago
    Romania / Digi
mhb 4y ago
Consumer Cellular FTW
mindslight 4y ago
At this point the only people left directly using the infrastructure companies don't care about money. For each of the infrastructure providers, there are many competitive MVNOs with prices plainly on their websites. You should be able to get a regular plan for ~$40/mo, and even a bare bones paygo for $10/3mo.
bushbaba 4y ago
Disagree here. T-Mobile’s advertised price is what I pay. Yes it’s with their “autopay” discount. But they’ve not had hidden fees.