Re: Workplace issues (was RE: side-effect of tabbed browsing

["Edgar D' Souza" <edgar -dot- b -dot- dsouza -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:51 AM, McLauchlan, Kevin
<Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
> A major carrier here announced that it is starting to charge users for
> IMs and other text messages INCOMING, including spam and including their
> OWN SPAM... the advertising crap that they send you regarding their own
> "services" and specials.  Yes, they partially relented and allowed that
> you could apply to have spam messages dropped from your bill, but their
> policy is to make it so onerous that you'll just let it ride.  "Yes sir,
> you can certainly get those 310 spam messages removed from your phone
> bill - just fill out this form.  What's that sir?  Why yes, it is quite
> easy.  It had better be; did I mention that you'll need to do it 310
> times? And it's an online web-form and we've disabled cut'n'paste.
> Whoops! Make that 311 there's another spam just arrived. You be sure to
> have a _nice_ day, sir!"
>
> There's a groundswell of resentment and outcry, but most Canadian users
> are locked into multi-year plans.  You _can_ use pay-as-you-go, but the
> per-minute and per-message rates are much higher than (the
> already-higher-than-you-Americans-pay) rates if you have a plan.

That is SO stupid and unfair! Isn't is possible to go to Better
Business Bureau/court/other applicable forum and complain that they
are substantially modifying the terms of the contract under which
users signed up to use their service? It might not get this extremely
hostile move rescinded, but it might free the users from the
multi-year lock-in?

Sheesh, the greed, the greed!!

Ed.
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