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Family, Verizon far apart over nearly $18,000 phone bill
Reading this article on my local news site, it really did bring home the challenges in Telecomm Expense Management. It's personal to the anguish felt by one family who've fallen victim to the complexities of carrier plans.
Putting scale aside, there's a great deal of similarity between companies trying to wrap their arms around telecomm expenses and the grief in mismanagement of a single family plan. Sorting through the pages of fine print in a contract to understand your corporate bills - you just don't have the time. The invoices roll in, hundreds if not thousands of them each month for a company and you're contracted to pay them within a few short days.
I am not beating on Verizon as it's a complex area and all the carrier plans are pretty much the same. But I particularly liked this quote "What carriers are doing is akin to the government's posting signs that the speed limit is 16.6 centimeters per millisecond, instead of 40 miles per hour".
It is hardly surprising that an industry exists to bring order to this.
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