by Bruce Kushnick
Verizon NY Charged Every Residential Phone Customer about $750.00 Per Line for a Fiber Optic Service, Including Seniors, Low Income Families and Rural Areas, (counting taxes, some of which are also revenues to Verizon).
- In 2006, the NY Public Service Commission granted Verizon NY multiple rate increases (84%) on residential phone service for "massive deployment of fiber optics" and "losses". (VNY also raised business rates multiple times as well.)
- Extra services, including inside wiring or non-published numbers, also got hit with 100%-300% rate increases since 2006. Customers paid an additional 0.00 extra, counting taxes for inside wire maintenance, for example.
- If you have phone service and added features, (though the excess costs vary based on which additional services you have), you paid over ,000 extra.
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