Comments on: Verizon Wireless CEO responds to David Pogue’s article on the American mobile industry

By: The mounain

The mounain — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:52:57 +0000

you know what…retrieving voicemail is free in South Africa…

By: John

John — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:22:45 +0000

Lowell is a really good guy, he spoke in my class. His speech dealt with all of your gripes in a thoughtful and honest way. Go see him in person if you can, you will come away informed and impressed.

By: Andrew D

Andrew D — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:37:22 +0000

OK. I get it. The inmates in prison are satisfied with the food.

Who wants to take up a pool … Who really wrote that piece? That’s a pretty poor “response”.

I can’t wait until the guards turn their heads, then I’m busting out of the plan.

By: Ash

Ash — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:21:39 +0000

And then add insult to injury by us Manitobans knowing that we have even less of a voice to complain where MTS Allstream (our “local” by the people off the people industry adds to the shaft for all Manitobans (for the Americans, Manitoba is in the middle of Canada!). Where and to whom can I complain?

By: Ken Z

Ken Z — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:59:38 +0000

Big V service is slack at best,quite poor(by what one reads about their wireless net antics)by any standards to say the least.Verizon and the others DON’T provide rural areas with REAL coverage.There is not the profit stream to warrant their massive salary/bonuses each year.Their CEO is “verbal-spewing” the the rote he learned to do in College to look good and say nothing of value.This is a serious problem in this country as the Drug Co.’s,Health Co.’s and many others(including our boy at V)provide little if any real increasing value to their customers as they infer what great things they are doing…
Just a thought,when they meet their maker,what will they do?

By: joshua2983

joshua2983 — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:06:44 +0000

don’t forget about Verizon’s ridiculous practice of keeping a chokehold on the BREW platform so that they can charge a subscription for software you download onto your phone. It’s like buying a car outright and still having to pay the dealer every month you want to drive the car.

By: BLOGDUGGERY » Blog Archive » We’re not gonna take it, except we are

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:32:08 +0000

[...] Then Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell C. McAdam wrote an open letter to the Times, indicating that their article was wrong, and then doesn’t actually answer the charges made in the article, such as unfair double-billing, subsidies and contracts. Check that out here. [...]

By: Chris Herborth

Chris Herborth — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:35:42 +0000

Now imagine that you’re a Canadian cellular customer and things are actually *WORSE*.

We’ve got three carriers here (Rogers, Bell, Telus; they bought all their competitors) and they’re all in lock-step when it comes to pricing, plans, etc. This “competition” is a joke… my contract (w/Rogers) is up in about a month, and I’m seriously considering just dropping my cell service instead of getting a new phone.

Sure I’m only one customer, but the hardware manufacturers lose a sale, and the cell carriers lose a subscriber. *shrug*

- chrish

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:21:46 +0000

In describing how great Verizon is for the world, Lowell doesn’t mention how they charge “from the time a call enters our network, which may be several seconds before your phone rings.” Kind of reminds me of the scam Richard Prior’s character in Superman III used to collect all those fractions of pennies…

I don’t know what prices are in Eurpoe, but Verizon charges as much as US $0.45/minute if you go over you allotted monthly minutes. And they don’t roll over unused minutes. Now that can hurt…

In his calculations of the cost/minute, I wonder if he divided the cost of the monthly plan by the number of minutes included in the plan or the average number of minutes actually used. You always need a plan with more minutes than you will really use due to the cost of going over..

By: B. Harman

B. Harman — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:16:33 +0000

Did this quy work for ENRON and then AIG before landing this gig?

Certainly sounds like one of that type