Verizon's 'Pick Your Own Cable TV Channels' Is Just Another Bait & Switch [telecom]

Most of this article is about all the extra fees that get tacked on to the cable package, so the basic package is not actually $10/mo as advertised. That's true.

But what they seem to be ignoring is that those same fees get added on to ALL the cable packages. So if you're comparing different packages from the same cable provider, you can pretty much ignore those fees. You should compare this $10 baseline with the baseline price for other packages, to see how much you'll save.

They also make a big deal about the fact that your actual cost will be $32/mo, 220% of the quoted price. Since these added fees are almost all fixed prices, of course they'll be a much bigger percentage of a tiny baseline price.