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Not sure I agree with what is being said. Yeah I'm not happy with what they have been doing, but the changes have never forced a customer under contract to pay more, it has been the consumer who had continued to sign up for these plans, and there are lower cost plans out there, but people aren't switching to them because the value equation with their current carrier hasn't dropped below that if another. For me, having most my family and my wife's family on Verizon, plus their unbeatable coverage, means even with all the changes removing value from their plans, the remaining value is still worth the premium.
 
I think the point of the article is that the various practices actually do force the customer to pay more than they would have done had the market been genuinely competitive.

Certainly, you could replace US with UK and the article would make perfect sense when applied to many oligopolies here - telecoms, water, power, trains .. basically, everything that was 'privatised' come to think of it :)

Now just off to the Grammar Nazi thread coz of something I read there - I'm shocked the New Yorker subs let it through :D
 
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