AT&T, one of the kings of bleeding consumers dry, has announced it will be doubling its upgrade fee for new handsets.
Whenever a subscriber upgrades to a new handset after signing a new contract, the fee is currently $18. Starting tomorrow, that fee will be doubled to $36.
Says the carrier: "Wireless devices today are more sophisticated than ever before. And because of that, the costs ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by GryphB: I can't wait to be rid of ATT. I'm switching over to T-mobiles $50 prepay plan, and it'll still be less than what I pay now and have what I need, talk and text only.
I'm happy I did that switch. I picked up my no-contract smart phone at a discount by online shopping.
So AT&T charging fees just to take your sim card out of one phone and put it into another.
I really wish consumers would raise hell against these US carriers the way they did against the banks when they tried to charge fees for using your debit card. I guess it's different for cell phones since the average US citizen doesn't have a clue of how the industry screws them over.
Originally posted by ZeusAV: So AT&T charging fees just to take your sim card out of one phone and put it into another.
I really wish consumers would raise hell against these US carriers the way they did against the banks when they tried to charge fees for using your debit card. I guess it's different for cell phones since the average US citizen doesn't have a clue of how the industry screws them over.
When they sneak around behind your back, then grin when they hand you your bill; after enough time has past without getting caught, they tend to want to want to put on one hell of a show when you call them on their shite.
Yet these same companies will scream & bitch against legislation & government involvement in big business, but use the same judicial means to write legally binding contracts tying 'your' hands to their unreasonable means.
All the while using the excuse "he/she 'knowingly' signed the contract". At which point the bought judge will ask if you read the 8 page, 8.5x14, single spaced, 8 font (.5 font for the shit they REALLY didn't want you to know, even if you could understand the verbiage), Free checking account with the $200 check your grandma sent you.
But there's a $6 starters fee & a $5 monthly fee for anything under $500 & it's actually completely free so long as you have $1000 just sitting in the account.
