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Title: Verizon jacks phone upgrade fees from $20 up to $30 Post by: HCK on January 12, 2017, 04:05:15 pm Verizon jacks phone upgrade fees from $20 up to $30
<article> <section class="page"> <p> If there’s one thing Verizon loves to do, it’s bouncing around the cost of its smartphone upgrade fee. After Verizon introducing a $20 upgrade fee (http://www.macrumors.com/2016/03/31/verizon-20-dollar-smartphone-upgrade-fee/) in April 2016, it's now raising the cost even further.</p><p> Whenever you swap out your existing phone—whether through a straight-up purchase or a monthly payment plan with the carrier—Verizon adds $30 to your bill. Verizon will refund the charge to anyone who returns their new device within 14 days after purchasing it.</p><p> When asked about the reason for the price increase Verizon didn’t have much to say beyond a boilerplate statement. “These fees help cover increased cost to provide customers with America’s largest and fastest 4G LTE network,” Verizon told Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/verizon-raises-upgrade-fee-to-cover-increased-cost-but-its-costs-declined/).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3156028/mobile/verizon-jacks-phone-upgrade-fees-from-20-up-to-30.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Verizon jacks phone upgrade fees from $20 up to $30 (http://www.macworld.com/article/3156028/mobile/verizon-jacks-phone-upgrade-fees-from-20-up-to-30.html#tk.rss_all) |