Verizon backs down [telecom]

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Verizon will not, after all, charge you $2 for the privilege of paying your bill.

This incident is the latest in a decades long series of mitakes that make me wonder if the most important skill the poo-bahs at Verizontal posess is the ability to hide their mistakes. There are so many boondoggles to choose from, it's hard to keep track, and every one of them invites the comment "What where they thinking"?

Again and again and again, from trying to deploy an MDS system in hilly Boston suburbs, to demanding that IS professionals with decades of experience in COBOL and PL/I learn "C" almost overnight, to laughable forays into the retail world, Ma Bell's missteps are legendary. Yet, the executives at 1095 A/A keep trying to outdo each other in their endless search for a father figure who will tell them to stop playing and get to work.

Bill Horne Moderator