Congratulations, your post was so fucking dumb it actually gave me a headache. Where's the Excedrin?
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Originally Posted by Smittie61984
So why have $60 phone bills if it doesn't cost Verizon anything? Let's regulate the price down to $30 or fuck it FREE. No one is allowed to make money but "us".
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Read it again, he didn't say it didn't cost them
anything. He said it didn't cost them $21,000. Sixty is reasonable monthly service charge, $21,000 is NOT. If you can't understand that, you're always going to have a job with your name on your shirt.
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Originally Posted by Smittie61984
Besides do you have any idea how much money it costs to up keep a communications network?
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As a matter of fact, I do. In 1996 I was a cellular infrastructure engineer and I've been in the mobile industry since. Cell towers, cell phones, you name it. And no, it didn't cause $21,000 in equipment degradation to move 1.4GB of data.
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Originally Posted by Smittie61984
Between my work truck, me, and my partner my company charges the phone company $200 an hour and we are just little piss ants.
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Compared to the billions it cost to build the network, your $200/hr. isn't even a blip on the radar. But the cost to build a network is supported by government incentives and millions of subscribers paying an affordable monthly rate. Not by gouging some poor bastard with a 13 year that... holy shit, uses the internet a lot!
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Originally Posted by Smittie61984
But you guys are saints. I'm sure if your company suddenly decided to pay you an extra $100,000 that was WITHIN your contract that you'd say "It's okay guys, that's too much for me so take it back".
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Did you and Ed go to the same school?