Quote:>Calif. Residents Sue Verizon Over 'Secret' Charge
>Wednesday, October 04, 2000
>By Dan Whitcomb
>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Remember those black rotary telephones the
>phone company used to make you rent back in the 1980s because you
>were not allowed to buy them?
>Guess what? You may still be renting that phone whether you know it
>or not, whether it still exists or not and whether you want to or not.
I'm sorry, but this at best is a frivolous lawsuit. Forgetfulness is not
an excuse for sueing a vendor. If you see a charge on your bill and you
don't know what the charge is it is *your* responsibility to find out what
this charge is for. Verizon and AT&T (who received the equipment after the
breakup of Bell in '84) did just what they were allowed to do. Just
because the people at the time decided that they'd keep their phone either
because they were satisfied with what they had or for whatever reason it is
no excuse 25 years later to be all of a sudden surprised that they have
this addition to their telephone expense. Just as a comment on the actual
phones, there's probably the likelihood if they indeed do have the old
phones that those phones are still working. They may have thrown out 2 or
3 phones that they purchased at the local K-mart since then.
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