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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[what an f-ing rip-off.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 8th 2008 11:42AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[What's ironic is that SMSing a friend results in less network load than a phone call communicating the same message. <br><br>Thank god I have unlimited, because 20 cents is absurd.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[nerdtalker]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 8th 2008 12:46PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[Sooo...  The question of the day is...  Does this qualify as a golden parachute to get out of your Verizon Wireless contract without penalty...?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony C]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 8th 2008 11:46AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[If you qualify for the change, it's worth a shot trying to get out. Get a Tilt, best business phone I've ever used. Or iPhone if that's your style.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ShortFuse]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 8th 2008 11:58AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[No. I tried last time, and it didn't work. =/]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[byaah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 8th 2008 1:59PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[Nevermind my last comment, apparently it does.  I didn't see Dietcoke's post below.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[byaah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 8th 2008 2:00PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[All the more reason to include a text message package in your Verizon Wireless monthly plan.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 8th 2008 12:28PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is just a push to get everyone (me at least) to increase there base rate $5-10 and pay the absurd taxes.  I personally will disable text messaging completely before stooping to this level, then potentially make the move to a cheaper carrier. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kiwi616]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 8th 2008 1:45PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[I Just called and used the script from consumerist website.  After 14 minutes I was disconnected without a termination fee.<br><br>I said it was unacceptable and I refuse to pay the rate increase.  Also it states that in the customer agreement that I have 60 days to refuse and cancel my contract termination fee free.  They really didn't argue and did as I asked.<br><br>Very happy.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dietcoke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 8th 2008 1:51PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[Dietcoke, I second spincasts suggestion, would you mind linking to the script from consumerist? thanks!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[M]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 8th 2008 2:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[Could you link to the Consumerist script please? That sounds useful.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[spincast]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 8th 2008 2:05PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[Engadget, thanks for posting this. I love being able to get important VZW news in one place.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[M]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 8th 2008 2:21PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[Great I just cancelled my V contract 2 days ago for a cool $175. Ugh. Guess I can't say, "Oops, didn't mean to cancel, Big V," then cancel in a week?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[matt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 8th 2008 4:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[I think PSM meant to reply to you, but he replied to the post under yours:<br><br>"I left Verizon a few months ago and received a letter basically saying, "Are you sure you actually meant to leave? Maybe you left us for another carrier by accident. Pretty please come back to us, and we'll forgive the ETF." I was half tempted to write them back and tell them where to shove it, but in your case perhaps you'll get a similar letter and can rejoin, and then cancel again later. Might look pretty suspicious, though."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[M]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 8th 2008 9:50PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[of course everyone hates Verizon soooo much that there's no mention of Sprint doing the exact same thing with their text messaging.. typical]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[icarus]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 8th 2008 7:17PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[I left Verizon a few months ago and received a letter basically saying, "Are you sure you actually meant to leave?  Maybe you  left us for another carrier by accident.  Pretty please come back to us, and we'll forgive the ETF."  I was half tempted to write them back and tell them where to shove it, but in your case perhaps you'll get a similar letter and can rejoin, and then cancel again later.  Might look pretty suspicious, though.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[PSM]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 8th 2008 7:53PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[Thanks for posting that link!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[M]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 8th 2008 11:01PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[VZWguy is a moron... the link for the script is above in one of the comments.<br><br>I am a wireless network guy and there is only one real reason why people are forced to keep verizon...<br><br>"  Everyone I know has verizon and the minutes are free from verizon to verizon... I already pay $400 a month for txt message for my kids blah blah "<br><br>Everyone hates verizon.  They have horrible phones... horrible battery life... they cripple every new feature... and they are the most expensive.<br><br>I am glad to get rid of them.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Krad]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 9th 2008 11:11AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[I love you guys haha<br>"verizon is such a rip off, this is absurd, i need out of my contract"<br>like EVERY company won't be following suit in the following months<br><br>as far as contracts go, unless you just complain a lot and they deam it not worth thier time, this is not a get out of jail free card.  I loved it last time how people got out of sprint becaus eof text uppage, and they moved to verizon who upped it a few weeks later. expect the same to follow with this uppage as well. <br><br>you guys are great comedy gold(the posters) so much disinformation in these replies it is great haha<br><br>oh, and i searched verizon, and verizon script, and verizon customer service over at the consumerist and foudn no script...was it a comment by a poster by chance?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[VZWguy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 9th 2008 11:28AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=712366" rel="nofollow">http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=712366</a><br>This is the script to cancel ETF free from verizon enjoy]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[kofman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 9th 2008 1:21PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/08/verizon-upping-per-text-rates/</guid><description><![CDATA[It does work. And VZWguy is correct. Think about it. It's a business. Every company is going to eventually follow suit, no matter whether it's Verizon, Sprint, or one of the other carriers that does it first. They're all about making money, while trying their hardest to make it seem like they're "looking out for the consumer." Just about every phone company is going to jump on board. And granted, they each have their benefits (i.e. Verizon has the best service where I live...sadly) but each one has equal or greater downfalls as well (i.e. I waited for over a year for a phone to come out on the Verizon network, that was released on other carriers long ago). All in all, the "get outta jail free card" brought up by the upcoming hike in txt rates, will only land you in another institution.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Allison]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 9th 2008 2:16PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>