Paying Not to Have Long Distance?
September 12, 2007 by Karen Weideman
Filed under financial matters
Phone companies have thought up yet another way to get money out of you. Verizon is starting to play AT&T’s dirty tricks by charging customers a fee for long distance even if you don’t use it.
What?
I remember years ago when I had a land line, the companies were trying to charge me an $8 a month long distance fee for their service, even though I wasn’t making any long distance calls through them. (I was using a 10-10 number through a separate company.)
Then AT&T got really sneaky and switched me over to them as my long distance carrier WITHOUT my …read more
