The percentage of returned gadgets that have nothing wrong with them.
Of the $13.8 billion worth of returned products in 2007, only 5 percent were because gadgets were actually broken, according to a 2008 study.
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Heaven forbid Verizon faces more legitimate competition and is required to begin caring about customers and product offerings. Assholes.
Competition benefits consumers - it is too bad most corporations appear to not give a shit about this.
How is this preventing competition in any way? This is actually reinforcing that competition DOES exist... you do not like VZW for this lawsuit, so you don't choose VZW as your carrier... BOOM competition right there, and VZW knows it.
Don't give me this BS how this restricts "competition", as if VZW wins this lawsuit they are going to magically do away with Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T, Alltel, US Cellular, etc.
elgee02, your "Verizon can do no evil" stance has gotten so absurd you're spewing nonsense.
Verizon wants the spectrum limited to one single company. That said company would control what flows on the network. There would be no CHOICE. There would only be one company. That is the point of the open-access. Having more than one choice, means different companies would have to compete for customers. This means competition. If there was only one company Verizon could charge whatever it wanted for the service. But I think you knew this already and needed to put your Verizon defense regardless if it made sense or not.
Come on shortfuse, someone with such condescending speak like yours should at least be correct.
VZW is challenging the requirements that whatever company wins the spectrum has to allow any DEVICE on the network. So if this is restricting competition it's doing so to manufactures who don't make phones for VZW. This is in no way restricting competition between CARRIERS, this is only in regards to DEVICES.
So once again, quit acting that if VZW wins this lawsuit that they are magically going to do away with Alltel, At&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, etc.
Shortfuse02 and Sunjay, you all have got it.
In short, VZW has challenged the FCC saying, "the FCC's 700 MHz open-access rules [i.e.: freedom] claiming that the auction violates the US Constitution..."
Oh, yes, the US Constitution is soo against freedom.
Oh, yes, VZW is totally in line with the fundamental beliefs of the Constitution. You know, it has been said that the clairvoyant Benjamin Franklin once said, "When man creates a mobile communications device, the company, should keep these devices bromide, plastered with logos of said company. The customers must remember who is in charge: not them....oh yeah, and they don't need too much bluetooth capabilities, either, the bare essentials are good."