It’s raining and dreary, a perfect day for an indoor project. Like forgery. To escape our Verizon contract, we told them we’re moving to Cambodia to work in the US Embassy. The 30 days for us to send them proof of this is coming up. We know this really pissed a lot of people off when we first did this so let us explain. We were told that one way to break your cellphone contract was to tell them you’re moving to an area out their service range. Cambodia certainly fits the bill. Almost too well, it can be argued.
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Yet Another Secret Level of Verizon Service You Can’t Have
By 8.29.06
George just can’t get a break. First he found out that in order to receive a mailer and get 100 free Anytime minutes from Verizon, he had to receive a mailer. In researching that matter, he found another secret door. VcastVIP. It too was locked.
Verizon 100 Free Anytime Minutes Only For Certain Special People
By 8.28.06
Inspired by our Verizon 100 Free Anytime Minutes investigation, George called up to try and apply. He’s got two Verizon accounts and pays at least $200, so he should be eligible, right?
What Is A Verizon “Merits” Customer?
By 8.28.06
As we know, it’s someone who eligible to get 100 Free Anytime minutes from this site, which is not a phishing site.
Verizon Does Nice Things, For Nice People
By 8.28.06
After all these emails arrived chastizing us for sending people to a phish site in hopes of attaining 100 free Verizon minutes, we called Verizon to check it out.
UPDATED: Verizon Wireless Does Something Nice
By 8.27.06
UPDATE: We called Verizon and they confirmed this is a legitimate offer.
Consumer Blasts Verizon With Car Windows
By 8.25.06
Another fine example of people using their cars as anti-corporate billboards. What really makes this one, however, is what the owner decided to park his car in front of.
Verizon ChatDroid Reluctant, Cagey
By 8.24.06
Crunchgear has a nifty transcript of a conversation a reader of theirs had with Verizon. This person was trying to figure out various means by which they could get the new Motorola KRZR (which is like the RZR, except crazy).
Verizon DSL, A Fee By Any Other Name…
By 8.21.06
Verizon announced in an email sent to customers that starting August 14th, Verizon Online will stop charging the FUSF (Federal Universal Service Fund) fee. This fee cost customers $1.25 or $2.83 a month, depending on their plan. FUSF was a fee “assessed” by Verizon’s DSL suppliers, but since they’ve stopped “assessing” it, Verizon will stop “recovering” it.
Verizon Strangely Helpful
By 8.18.06
Verizon is inviting people to call in and get their calling plan reduced.
The Truth About ‘5’
By 8.15.06
5. A word or maybe a number that causes even the most profane to turn a pallid green; that triggers the bile reflex in even those who can listen unblinking to Bob Saget’s version of The Aristocrats. So claims Verizon: amongst words like “fleshpopsicle” and “whiteswallow”, it stands testament to the deepest depravity of the human soul.
Sprint Charges Customer For Calling His Own Voicemail
By 8.8.06
Everyone in America can call Chris’s Sprint voicemail for free, except for Chris. He gets charged for it, and in fact, doing so made him go over his airtime minutes.
US Threatens to Sue if Maine Probes Verizon’s Phone Record Gift to NSA
By 8.8.06
Verizon customers in Maine asked the Public Utilities Commission to investigate whether the cellphone company handed over their phone records to the NSA. A July 28th letter from the DOJ to the PUC asked them to demure, and intimated at possible legal action.
Cancel Verzion By Moving to Cambodia
By 8.1.06
UPDATE: We don’t mean to say that you should actually lie to your cellphone provider and do this. In the interest of following up on advice we previously posted, which also appeared in Wired, we wanted to see if this worked. So we gave it a shot.
Telcos Are Luddites
By 7.28.06
An upcoming Business Week article socks phone companies right in the kisser for their squelching of new technologies.
