North Carolina Verizon customers, trapped by Hurricane Florence, say they're being throttled and upsold

Don’t forget ‘Industry should regulate itself’!

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The thing is, it probably costs Verizon almost nothing to give folks free reasonable connectivity in the affected areas. The infrastructure is there and presumably under utilized. I’m which they’d be getting kudos instead of criticism. I doubt this decision even makes sense economically.

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I’d say it’s people being punched by the invisible fist of the market.

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For the company no, but it’s someone’s sales statistic for the month.

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The invisible solid iron fist of late stage capitalism, in the soft velvet glove of … late stage capitalist sales and marketing departments.

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They just need to have a bunch of customers cancel subscriptions once they reach safety.

It might mean having to endure ATT for a bit, but it will send a message.

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I’m sure glad folks keep voting for republicans. My life sure is better for it.

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A bunch of folks at AT&T were just fired for not thinking of it first.

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Interesting. I live in the path of the storm in NC and Verizon has given customers in the affected areas 10 days of free data. No, really. Not sure what OP did to piss them off but they sent out notifications.

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