[106548] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level3 tries cell-phone style billing scam on customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff MacDonald)
Mon Aug 4 17:03:22 2008
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 20:24:29 -0400
From: Jeff MacDonald <jam@zoidtechnologies.com>
To: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb@byrneit.net>
In-Reply-To: <70D072392E56884193E3D2DE09C097A9F3FC@pascal.zaphodb.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 11:15:06AM -0700, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
> There's a big difference between the airlines hiking fares for future
> flights, which you can see when searching, and choose the competition;
> and companies adding "surcharges" to pre-existing contracts, some with
> terms and penalties for termination; all of which have a relatively high
> switching cost.
>
> This is a way for them to raise prices above what they contracted for,
> while preventing termination of contracts for cause.
>
> It's sleazy.
>
>
agreed.
however, is there a provision in the contract that allows the rates, fees,
etc to be changed without notice?
regards,
jam
