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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Cellphone companies and their tricky ways to get extra fees out of consumers]]></title><link>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/03/12/cellphone-companies-and-the-tricky-ways-to-get-extra-fees-out-of/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/03/12/cellphone-companies-and-the-tricky-ways-to-get-extra-fees-out-of/</guid><comments>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/03/12/cellphone-companies-and-the-tricky-ways-to-get-extra-fees-out-of/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/t/" rel="tag">AT and T (T)</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/s/" rel="tag">Sprint Nextel Corp (S)</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/at/" rel="tag">ALLTEL Corp (AT)</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/vz/" rel="tag">Verizon Communications (VZ)</a></p><img width="242" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="276" border="0" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.bloggingstocks.com/media/2006/08/razr_stilllife_240.jpg" /><em>Smart Money</em> <a href="http://www.smartmoney.com/top5/index.cfm?story=20070305">just released an article</a> on the five different ways cellphone companies hit people up to squeeze out those extra bits of spare change. <br /><br />For people investing in companies like Verizon Communications (NYSE:<a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/vz/nys?tabs=quotesandnews">VZ</a>), AT&amp;T, Inc.'s Cingular (NYSE:<a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/t/nys?tabs=quotesandnews">T</a>), and Alltell Corporation (NYSE:<a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/alltel-corporation/at/nys?tabs=quotesandnews">AT</a>), these may seem like great ways to sneak in a few extra dollars. But pay attention to which company is the fairest to its customers. Over time customers will realize who treats them the best. Too many attempts to treat customers with contempt could cost a company in the long run. <br /><br />JD Power and Associates does <a href="http://wsj.consumersearch.com/electronics/cell-phone-plans/index.html">yearly surveys</a> of customer satisfaction with wireless companies, and Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile are the top scorers. But even these companies use a lot of the tricks described in the <em>Smart Money</em> article to get extra change out of their customers.<p><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/03/12/cellphone-companies-and-the-tricky-ways-to-get-extra-fees-out-of/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Cellphone companies and their tricky ways to get extra fees out of consumers</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/03/12/cellphone-companies-and-the-tricky-ways-to-get-extra-fees-out-of/">Cellphone companies and their tricky ways to get extra fees out of consumers</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com">BloggingStocks</a> on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:55:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/03/12/cellphone-companies-and-the-tricky-ways-to-get-extra-fees-out-of/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/forward/850991/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/03/12/cellphone-companies-and-the-tricky-ways-to-get-extra-fees-out-of/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>cellphone charges</category><category>cellphone fees</category><category>cellphone video</category><category>CellphoneCharges</category><category>CellphoneFees</category><category>CellphoneVideo</category><category>JD Power</category><category>JdPower</category><category>texting</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tobias Buckell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:55:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
