FCC says “too bad” to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard::Comcast and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says “no.”
listing-every-fee rule “impose[s] significant administrative burdens and unnecessary complexity in complying with the broadband label requirements.”
Then, Mr ISP, you have too many fees or they are too complicated for you to charge.
I don’t see what’s so complicated. Where’s the burden of writing “because we fucking feel like it” on the bill?
Exactly. How can you track payment but not write them down?
Sounds like someone wants to embezzle something.
Research and development costs
Good. Now ban data caps. Unlike water or electricity, you cannot run out of data.
My monthly bill PROVES their systems are competent at itemizing EVERY SINGLE POSSIBLE fee and tax and charge.
Them claiming it was too hard always was complete bullshit.
Based.
Based.
They can charge it. It’s in the system. This was always a stall or attrition tactic.
What I really want is to know what the “real” price is. Not the 12 month promo price. What’s it gonna cost me when the price goes up? That should be required to be alongside the promo price.
Last time i moved i got cold called by Comcast to sign up for Internet. I asked them the price, they gave some deal. I asked what will be the price in 2 years when the contract was up. “Oh, well that really depends on what services you sign up for.” I tell them i want only Internet at this given speed and i will never sign up for anything else.
…the woman on the phone just stopped talking. I asked can she not tell me the price after all the specials run out and i get my last bill in the contract. She said “i dont know what you want me to say.”
Apparently they dont want people to know how screwed you are with Internet. I told the woman that i was going to write a letter letting them know that her inability to answer a simple question was the reason i was not going with their service. She hung up on me. Sent the letter and i got a call a few weeks later asking ifni wanted a super crazy deal they “never give to anyone.” I asked my question again and they couldn’t tell me my final bill so i hung up and reported the number as spam to my phone carrier.
Where the fuck is the law.
How is there more than one? Unless you need something slightly unusual like a static IP. Otherwise, everything should be covered by type of subscription, cost of subscription.
My IP hasn’t changed in the four years I’ve lived here… why is there even a fee for that when I’ve seemingly gotten it for free?
It’s for businesses where it’s cheaper to pay the ISP to guarantee that it’ll stay the same than it is to pay someone to fix things that break if it does change.
So… move to a business plan?
That’s where most static IPs are sold, yes, but one does not guarantee the other. The business plan is more about getting priority over residential customers for repairs.
Starting my DBA tomorrow! We here at Kait Co. require a static IP business plan!
If you can charge the fee you can tell me about. Sounds pretty simple.
don’t charge any fees then you won’t have to change the system. pretty simple.
You just know that track all of those fees anyways to make sure they bill you for them. Not listing them is just malicious.
Some decent news for a change at least
They’ll just make a fee for having to list their fees, and make the consumer pay for it.
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