Verizon might lower cable fees - eventually [telecom]

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Verizon's Latest Plan For Cable Fees Could Lower Your Cable Bill -- Eventually

By Alexis Kleinman

What if, instead of paying for all of the hundreds of channels that your cable provider offers when you sign up, you could choose exactly which ones you want? That's definitely a dream of most cable subscribers, riled by ever-high fees. And while Verizon isn't ready to start offering a-la-carte channels, a new plan of theirs, reported in The Wall Street Journal, could take us one step closer to making that dream a reality.