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Offline tp4tissue

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Fios Trickery...
« on: Fri, 17 April 2015, 11:14:16 »
So you get the email that says $15 renewal incentive for 24 months

but they jacked up the Price on the internet package by $8..

So I'm only getting $7*24

LIARS...


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Re: Fios Trickery...
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 17 April 2015, 12:06:58 »
They also throttle speeds at prime time hours.  ISPs really need more competition; this 'localized monopoly' nonsense is terrible.


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Re: Fios Trickery...
« Reply #2 on: Fri, 17 April 2015, 18:34:04 »
Sigh... I wish they'd just tell people the truth..  And not resort to tricks like this.

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Re: Fios Trickery...
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 17 April 2015, 19:48:37 »
The last thing you'll get from Verizon is honesty.

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Re: Fios Trickery...
« Reply #4 on: Fri, 17 April 2015, 19:52:57 »
At least Verizon is now 100% american

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Re: Fios Trickery...
« Reply #5 on: Fri, 17 April 2015, 20:47:49 »
I only got 2 choices in my area.. sigh......... comcast, which throttles BT heavily, and Verizon, which also throttles BT, but slightly less.

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Re: Fios Trickery...
« Reply #6 on: Sun, 19 April 2015, 05:08:42 »
The last thing you'll get from Verizon is honesty.

QFT.

I'm still on their DSL as they won't upgrade to FIOS here and I have no other option. The Internet went out a while back and I have an online class at school so this is pretty unacceptable for more than a day. They said it would take 24 hours to fix and that was repeated every time I called for the next 5 days. I ended up tethering my laptop to my LTE from AT&T that I have on my phone and running up the data that month after 2 nights of wardriving only to find out everyone I could steal wifi from in this county also had Verizon so it was down.
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Re: Fios Trickery...
« Reply #7 on: Sun, 19 April 2015, 06:28:00 »
The last thing you'll get from Verizon is honesty.

QFT.

I'm still on their DSL as they won't upgrade to FIOS here and I have no other option. The Internet went out a while back and I have an online class at school so this is pretty unacceptable for more than a day. They said it would take 24 hours to fix and that was repeated every time I called for the next 5 days. I ended up tethering my laptop to my LTE from AT&T that I have on my phone and running up the data that month after 2 nights of wardriving only to find out everyone I could steal wifi from in this county also had Verizon so it was down.

you no starbux?

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Re: Fios Trickery...
« Reply #8 on: Tue, 21 April 2015, 03:54:49 »
The last thing you'll get from Verizon is honesty.

QFT.

I'm still on their DSL as they won't upgrade to FIOS here and I have no other option. The Internet went out a while back and I have an online class at school so this is pretty unacceptable for more than a day. They said it would take 24 hours to fix and that was repeated every time I called for the next 5 days. I ended up tethering my laptop to my LTE from AT&T that I have on my phone and running up the data that month after 2 nights of wardriving only to find out everyone I could steal wifi from in this county also had Verizon so it was down.

you no starbux?
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