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posted by janrinok on Sunday September 17 2017, @09:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the greed,-greed-and-more-greed dept.

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Roaming data use makes customers unprofitable, so Verizon will cut them off.

Verizon is disconnecting another 8,500 rural customers from its wireless network, saying that roaming charges have made certain customer accounts unprofitable for the carrier.

The 8,500 customers have 19,000 lines and live in 13 states (Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wisconsin), a Verizon Wireless spokesperson told Ars today. They received notices of disconnection this month and will lose access to Verizon service on October 17.

"These customers live outside of areas where Verizon operates our own network," Verizon said. "Many of the affected consumer lines use a substantial amount of data while roaming on other providers' networks and the roaming costs generated by these lines exceed what these consumers pay us each month."

"We sent these notices in advance so customers have plenty of time to choose another wireless provider," Verizon also said.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/verizon-kicks-8500-rural-customers-off-network-for-using-roaming-data/


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by McGruber on Monday September 18 2017, @12:26AM

    by McGruber (3038) on Monday September 18 2017, @12:26AM (#569543)

    Grandma who makes 3 calls and downloads 200MB per month isn't being overcharged enough to subsidize the heavy users.

    The Grandmas is my family *are* the heavy users -- they're always face timing the grandkids when they're not together in person. When they are together, they are often watching kid videos together on the phone.

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