[PLUG-TALK] Wireless Carrier "Service" Fees

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Tue May 6 22:20:21 UTC 2008


> On Tue, 6 May 2008, Alan wrote:
>
>> I think they are called "Screwage Fees".
>
> Alan,
>
>    That's what I suspected. Wasn't there something in the local or
> national
> news not too long ago about having these fees dropped and past payments
> refunded?

For one of them.  Not certain about the others.  They are pretty vague
about what any of the charges are for.  Some of them i think that just
make up out of thin air.


>> In other fun news, it was announced today that Qwest will be moving all
>> their wireless customers to Verison starting the first of the year.  No
>> word of how they are going to port over all the accumulated ringtones
>> and
>> wallpapers and other stuff their customers paid for for their cell
>> phones.
>
>    Don't wallpapers and ringtones reside on the handset?

Yes, but getting them off a CDMA phone that has been locked out by the
provider is not a fun chore.

Reminds me that I need to see if the Bluetooth OBEX FTP code was ever fixed.



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