Re: More fees for Ohio Customers

On 30 Jan 2006 in alt.cellular.verizon, Justin wrote:

> Joe Makowiec wrote on [Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:30:15 GMT]:
>> On 29 Jan 2006 in alt.cellular.verizon, Scott wrote:
>>
>>> Who decides if this is a "material" change or not? The service is
>>> awesome but the fees and changes in the terms are getting really
>>> old.
>>
>> You got a landline phone? My latest bill:
>>
>> Verizon services: $26.31
>> 'Surcharges and taxes': $20.67
>> Total: $46.98
>>
>> Put another way, 'Surcharges and taxes' are running at 78.6% of
>> what I'm paying for. NPR (Marketplace, maybe?) pointed out in the
>> past day or so that one of the taxes/surcharges/user fees/whatever
>> on telephone bills dates back to the Spanish American War!
>
> Are you trying to say 20.67 is 78.6% of 46.98? Or that the
> surcharges are 76.8% of the service charges?

Verizon services are what I'm paying for.

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