Posted by Vince Wadhwani on Aug 21, 2006

Or maybe the headline should read: "Federal Government Gives OK to Verizon to Divert Money to Corporate Coffers". Because in essence, that's what is going on here. After lobbying Congress to get rid of a DSL surcharge, Verizon is coincidentally adding a DSL surcharge of almost the exact same amount. Verizon 1, Customers 0.

Please take a minute to make sure we don't get totally screwed.