Verizon Set To Terrorize 700k New Users In 2008
- July 30th, 2007
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Listen to this guy
If any of our readers are Rural Cellular subscribers then get out NOW! We don’t have time for questions. Just do it. Verizon is taking the necessary steps to make your life a living hell in the first half of 2008 with the announcement today that they would be purchasing Rural Cellular for $757 million in cash to save a few bucks ($1 billion) on roaming. The $45 per share isn’t worth the headache and fees you’ll be paying. You’ve been warned.
Verizon Wireless to buy Rural Cellular [Yahoo! News]
Bryan (Who am I?)
11 months ago
Pretty vehement post… also pretty short! Could you guys provide a little backround on why there’s no light at the end of this tunnel?
Rebecca (Who am I?)
11 months ago
Although I have had Verizon issues myself, their coverage is decent (can’t say the same about their costs), I read the source of this and it seems that this useless post is simply an unhappy Verizon customer or previous customer venting.
The source says nothing about costs rising for current Verizon customers, only about increasing their coverage area and having 700k new customers.
Pamela (Who am I?)
11 months ago
Uhhhhh…why?????
Jeremy Steele (Who am I?)
11 months ago
Yeah… this is uh… informative?
Ryan Christensen (Who am I?)
11 months ago
I’m wondering this myself… any background for the tone of the message?
Also, it might be useful if you specify in your posts (the archives seem to share the same problem) that you’re talking about Verizon Wireless, not Verizon Communications, as they are pretty different entities.) At first I was wondering why VZ Com would be purchasing this company instead of VZW…
Peter Ha (Who am I?)
11 months ago
A bit more news is trickling in on this one:
Verizon will be acquiring Unicel and absorbing their debt to increase VZ’s rural presence in the 15 states where ‘Rural Cellular’ roams free. Unicel is currently on a GSM network, but VZ is CDMA. Customers will slowly be converted to CDMA, which is ok unless you plan on traveling abroad. The existing GSM network will remain for other GSM networks’ roaming needs.
Why is that bad? Because Verizon will take your lunch money (read: expensive plans) and force their crappy phones on you. That’s why.
Ryan Christensen (Who am I?)
11 months ago
Any thoughts about referring to it as Verizon Wireless to remove any future confusion? It would be much appreciated! :)