Bell Mobility to customers: Screw You!
p2pnet news view P2P | Mobiles:- The Bell Mobility plan to rip its customers off for incoming text messages starts today, consumer anger and class action lawsuits notwithstanding.
The company figures it can do whatever the hell it wants and get away with it.
Users who who haven’t already bought text messaging will now be forced to pay 15 cents every time they get an incoming text.
And Telus says it’s going to levy the same charge at the end of this month.
“The companies already charged 15 cents for outgoing messages sent by users not on a text plan, and they say the added charge for incoming messages will only affect a minority of customers,” says the Ottawa Citizen, quoting ultra-cool Bell associate director of media relations, Jason Laszlo (right) as saying:
“About 95 per cent of text messages on Bell’s network are sent and received by clients on text bundles. Anyone who plans to send and receive a significant number of text messages really should be on a plan.”
And,”It’s a competitive market,” said Lazslo at another time and another place.
“Implementing this fee is simply aligning ourselves with the competitive marketplace.”
We didn’t want to be rude in the headline. But what it should have said was
“Bell to users —- fuck you!”
Meanwhile, Bell is trying to weasel around the various ‘issues’ confronting it with a specious re-branding campaign.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
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August 9th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Wow, this is petty.
The extra revenue better be used to upgrade infrastructure to support the bandwidth demands of customers so that “traffic shaping” is no longer “necessary” (by their claims).
August 11th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Simple, find another supplier and tell Bell(end) to fuck off.