On 30/07/17 08:53 AM, James Knott wrote:
On 07/30/2017 08:42 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
We had a court case here in Canada a few years ago where the cable TV companies were bundling 'extras' that were 'extra charge options'
Is Bell Canada still charging for Touch Tone? For many years they did, even though you couldn't get a phone line without it.
Yes, I remember that. I had a handset that had a switch to control between pulse or tone dialling so I tried to get the tone option removed, and they wouldn't, so I changed to Sprint Canada, and then they got bought by Rogers. After getting fed up with Rogers upping the price of a single phone line, messing with the billing, screwing yp their web site so I couln't make payments there since I don't use the particular version of MS Internet Explorer (It absolutely wouldn't work with Firefox or any of the browser I had on my portable devices and when I showed the screen-dumps to the their staff they said they couldn't do anything except forward the complain, so of course NOTING HAPPENED). So I quite. I now use a VOIP service out of Montreal that costs less than one sixth that of Rogers and offers a lot more. (They run an Asterisk based system and offer a web interface to some of its user-level functions.)
I remember many years ago, auto manufacturers charging extra for "mandatory options".
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