AT&T Adds 61-Cent Admin Fee to All Customers

Cell phone companies love to deflate the cost of the services they advertise to their customers by pushing the cost to another fee that they don't promote. Following AT&T's logic, why not simply replace the $30 family messaging plan with a $5 family messaging and a mandatory, and hidden, $25 administrative fee? Its been a while, but I'm fairly certain I was on an everything unlimited plan with Sprint for $99 that had a unmentioned smartphone fee.

I don't understand how these practices are even legal: how can you advertise one price for a service and then apply a additional mandatory fee for that same service? I guess that's the power of fine print, but it is very manipulative (and very reminiscent of our income tax system with its F...
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