primitives discuss getting screwed

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

Donnachaidh  (1000+ posts)        Sat Jun-25-11 11:37 AM
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5 Ways Your Telecom Company is Screwing You

http://www.cracked.com/article_19268_5-ways-your-teleco...

When you look at your bill for phone, wireless and Internet service every month, you can't help but feel a sense of impotent rage. The bill is always higher than what they advertised the plan for, they cram in endless mystery charges and deep down inside you know they're screwing you. And there's really nothing you can do about it.

Well, we have good news -- it's actually worse than that! Wait, did we say "good" news? Sorry.

:snip:

#5. "4G" is a Bullshit Marketing Term

It was just a few years ago that everyone started getting 3G phones that could actually surf the Internet at speeds faster than '90s-era dial-up. But even 3G is going out of style. That's right, times are changing, grandpa! Now everyone's all about 4G. It's in pretty much every ad now, and every cellphone provider says its version is the biggest and best.

Read more: 5 Ways Your Telecom Company is Screwing You | Cracked.com

http://www.cracked.com/article_19268_5-ways-your-teleco...

I disremember.  Wasn't Cracked magazine a poor take-off of Mad magazine?

monmouth  (1000+ posts)        Sat Jun-25-11 11:50 AM
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1. I love my landline...This is one of the reasons...

aquart  (1000+ posts)        Sat Jun-25-11 11:56 AM
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2. Me, too.

Seeing cell phone stores on every block was a big clue that there is way too much profit in that industry.

kenny blankenship  (1000+ posts)      Sat Jun-25-11 11:57 AM
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3. So...when will the Democrats re-regulate the telecoms?

RB TexLa  (1000+ posts)      Sat Jun-25-11 11:59 AM
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4. I want to not pay the fee for 911 service and have it disabled. I can look the phone number up for myself.

[Chris_]

I disremember.  Wasn't Cracked magazine a poor take-off of Mad magazine?

It was.  They seem to have reinvented themselves since the Internet came along. 

I remember the magazine... it was truly awful.  My friends and I used to cringe at how bad it was.  It became a sick joke.

[Chris_]

The 4G standard the ITU established ... should get a data rate of 1,000MBps.

The "4G" plans that cellphone companies are plastering all over their ads are a fraction of that blazing-fast 4G standard. Verizon is currently capable of 32MBps maximum (though they only offer 12MBps to customers), and AT&T's is about the same (though that hasn't stopped them from trashing Verizon's identical technology). Sprint theoretically gives up to 10MBps, and T-Mobile can do up to 30MBps. Again, compare that to the between 100 and 1,000MBps we were supposed to get.

That answers a question I had last week.  Oh well.

[Bodadh]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1361402

Oh my.

I disremember.  Wasn't Cracked magazine a poor take-off of Mad magazine?

Yes, I used to read it all the time as a kid. Sometime in the 2000s they were reformed into a humor mag like Maxim. That failed in less then a year. Came back as a humor site. It is actually really good. I go there every day. Sometimes I actually learn some thing and quite a few of the articles ( not all mind you ) have a Conservative point of view in them.

[cmypay]

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4. I want to not pay the fee for 911 service and have it disabled. I can look the phone number up for myself.

  Does the poster mean 411? There is only one number for 911. Disabling it would mean an inability to call for help in an emergency.

[franksolich]

Does the poster mean 411? There is only one number for 911. Disabling it would mean an inability to call for help in an emergency.

That's the pollen primitive, who doesn't like small-town folk.

On Skins's island, he's considered an eccentric (in all but his ideology), and the primitives are always razzing him.  As usual, he doesn't know what he's talking about.