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As most of my readers know, I've been dissatisfied with Verizon Mobile, and the way it has demanded that those like my wife, who had “4G” phones which were not “4G” enough to suit their taste, buy new cell phones to enable her to keep paying exorbitant amounts of money to Verizon Mobile so she can “enjoy” the “benefits” of something called “volte” - whatever they might be.
If we pay them for “new” 4G phones, we are told, we’ll all get to march forward in sheeplike fashion to keep up the laughably high salaries of Verizon Mobile executives and the ridiculously low "standard" of service which allowed the cellular network in Boston to be unavailable for hours after the Boston Marathon bombing a few years ago.
Verizon Mobile, I think, is harboring a grudge about the way AT&T outmanuevered them for the lucrative deals that paid AT&T to put several dozen bandages on the side of the cellular network, theoretically allowing for cellphones to serve as a slightly-more-reliable alternative to the traditional copper-wire infrastructure which provided a standard of reliability that the rest of the world envied. They're taking their umbrage out on their users.
“Truth,” I’ve heard it said, “is the first casualty of war,” and we are in a war between corporate greed and the capabilities, survivability, and usability of the public services which common men and women depend on every day. The obvious sloppiness has been mirrored in the blatant disregard for any perceptable standard of honesty, fair dealing, or value, and in the complete ignorance of any kind of “public service.”Verizon Mobile doesn't seem to care about anything but ever-increasing profits, at the expense of the public that such companies are supposed to serve.
Bill Horne, Moderator