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WOW, why didnt AT&T think of that?

durkadurkha

Oct 9, 2008, 2:57 PM
for as money hungry AT&T is i bet their CFO is kicking himself in the butt right now for not thinking of this cash cow 1st!!
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fabsgwu

Oct 9, 2008, 3:40 PM
This is terrible, really awful. It's totally double dipping; customers pay for TXT packages, or ala carte, from the carrier already.

The FCC should not let this fly, otherwise you can expect other carriers to follow suit. For now I'm glad I just ditched VZW for an iPhone (AT&T)...
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tylerrocks09

Oct 9, 2008, 3:44 PM
Its not us who has to pay it, only them.

get over it! Your not paying for it.

and fun with the worse wireless network in America! 🤣
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RomeoProcor

Oct 9, 2008, 4:03 PM
well when your on verizon and you know longer get google, or that V cast ESPN because they decided to pull away from them, then you'll be paying...........sort of
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tylerrocks09

Oct 9, 2008, 4:25 PM
i very very highly doubt that happing.

Verizon V Cast is better then AT&Ts, Verizons can be found on the internet if you have a 1x data phone only and if you have a V Cast phone, you can watch Full Shows, and LIVE Shows.
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BigShowJB

Oct 11, 2008, 11:12 AM
tylerrocks09 said:
Its not us who has to pay it, only them.

get over it! Your not paying for it.

and fun with the worse wireless network in America! 🤣

WRONG!!!

the customer ALWAYS pays for it.
Businesses don't pay for tax increases. the customer does. Every cost a business incurs gets passed along to the customer one way or another. When ESPN starts getting charged $.03 /message, sooner or later you can bet that you will pay for it , either in your cable bill, as a 3rd party charge or surcharge to you VZW bill, or both.

And when you hear about tax increases on oil companies windfall profits? Yep youre gonna end up paying for those too. the only time you pay less for products is whe...
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DoubleHelix

Oct 9, 2008, 8:41 PM
durkadurkha said:
for as money hungry AT&T is i bet their CFO is kicking himself in the butt right now for not thinking of this cash cow 1st!!

I bet she is.....her name is Doreen Toben. 😉
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DoubleHelix

Oct 9, 2008, 8:42 PM
DoubleHelix said:
durkadurkha said:
for as money hungry AT&T is i bet their CFO is kicking himself in the butt right now for not thinking of this cash cow 1st!!

I bet she is.....her name is Doreen Toben. 😉
oooops - I thought you were referring to the VZ CFO, not the AT&T CFO.

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