See? Now this is the kind of noise that makes me not want to be a wireless customer. They've got "sticky downwards" pricing, which means its much easier for the customer charge to go up than down. There are all kinds of taxes in your phone bill that tack on extra charges and they don't hesitate to pass new taxes right on to their customers rather than take a hit on the bottom line. But don't go thinking, even for a second, that you'll see the friendly end of a tax-break on that bill. Those go straight in the snake's pockets.
I can't wait till someone takes the wind out of these guys' sails and tells it like it is. They're a "bit pipe" like TechDirt says in discussing the reasons that Verizon declines on the iPhone earlier. They want to be content providers and are getting dragged kicking and screaming into providing only a connection. ( Like when we recently reset our Comcast connection and they needed our Comcast email address to complete it. We don't know our Comcast address. We don't use our Comcast address and we never will.) Anyway, that's apparently why Apple went with Cingular over Verizon, the latter wasn't willing to be more of a "bit pipe" letting Apple handle more content and service than ever before. The Verizon CEO said "They would have been stepping in between us and our customers to the point where we would have almost had to take a back seat … on hardware and service support," Shit, that's the best sales pitch Verizon could've made to me. "We're not really in charge of anything." Where do I sign up for that?
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