And now that they don’t have to report them, how do they ask you to pay for them?
Here in Finland, you sing up for an internet connection for a certain price a month, usually for 12/24/36 months at a time and… That’s literally it. E.g I have 250/250 fibre for 35€/month for the next year. If they want me to pay more, they’ll have to increase the price next year when I renew it.
In Spain I signed my contract about 5 years ago for 200/200 fiber and they no longer offer it so they changed it to 800/800 but the price stayed the same. The contract renews automatically every year.
Centurylink added a fun one for me, a building relocation fee, I shit you not.
They mailed me paperwork stating how they need to charge an extra fee for when roads expand or move, and they have to relocate a building. So instead of just setting aside some of their profit for the few times they’ll need to move a fucking building, now I get to specifically pay for this occurrence.
I understand this, but now they get to double dip, have a high price, AND charge more. Instead of having all the pricing roled into the final price, they get to say $65/m *
with additional taxes and fees
They also get to invent new situations to charge you for. Instead of just, “our service costs this much” they now get to add additional things like:
Hail damage recovery fee
Flood damage recovery fee
Who knows if they ever actually have to relocate a building like they told me. I’d like to see some figures in how often that actually happens, and how much it costs them as a company.
Meaningless vague stuff like this
“Deregulated Administration Fee” sounds like a fee for doing nothing
Sounds more like the fee they directly use for lobbying to reduce oversight on ISPs.
And now that they don’t have to report them, how do they ask you to pay for them?
Here in Finland, you sing up for an internet connection for a certain price a month, usually for 12/24/36 months at a time and… That’s literally it. E.g I have 250/250 fibre for 35€/month for the next year. If they want me to pay more, they’ll have to increase the price next year when I renew it.
In Spain I signed my contract about 5 years ago for 200/200 fiber and they no longer offer it so they changed it to 800/800 but the price stayed the same. The contract renews automatically every year.
Centurylink added a fun one for me, a building relocation fee, I shit you not.
They mailed me paperwork stating how they need to charge an extra fee for when roads expand or move, and they have to relocate a building. So instead of just setting aside some of their profit for the few times they’ll need to move a fucking building, now I get to specifically pay for this occurrence.
You were paying for it either way, they just broke it out as a line item.
I understand this, but now they get to double dip, have a high price, AND charge more. Instead of having all the pricing roled into the final price, they get to say $65/m *
They also get to invent new situations to charge you for. Instead of just, “our service costs this much” they now get to add additional things like:
Who knows if they ever actually have to relocate a building like they told me. I’d like to see some figures in how often that actually happens, and how much it costs them as a company.
the slight difference is that now it doesn’t affect profits
Jesus, that’s insane.