Why I Oppose Privatization in Most Cases

BAH, big business as usual, calling bullshit, criticism July 9th, 2007

Sprint ditches customers who complain too much

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp, which recently launched an advertising campaign to attract new customers, is disconnecting more than 1,000 subscribers for calling its customer service lines too often and making what the company called unreasonable requests.
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“These customers were calling to a degree that we felt was excessive,” said Sprint spokeswoman Roni Singleton, adding the company needed to cull its customer base to improve services.

And would it surprise you to know thatSprint’s customer service record is lousy? Is it fair to punish CUSTOMERS who complain too much because of YOUR lousy service?

When I read articles about ennsylvania considering leasing or selling our toll roads to private companies, I get nervous: after all, you can kick the governor and your representatives out of office for screwing up. Voters can’t turn out the CEO of a private company. Sam goes for the bastards trying to privatize the Internet (and do visit this site: if the telecoms have their way, the Internet will be run like cable television, with crap sites for the low-paying plan, blocks put on sites that criticize big business, and steep prices for whatever the corporation deems “premium content”.

Sometimes you wish “Fight Club” was real.

One Response to “Why I Oppose Privatization in Most Cases”

  1. somegirl Says:
    July 9th, 2007 at 7:15 pm

    i just read your dl letter rant on saving the internet. maybe it’s just the push we need to y’know, pick up the pitchforks.

    or we can cancel all our expensive net service, go to the library to read news, and talk to each other more. no amount of poignant letters and videos are gonna sway the fcc away from the verizon/comcast vision. the only hope we have is that it will be a financial disaster for them.

    and guess this - once verizon installs fiberoptic, they cut the copper so no one can use them again, even though they’re required to lease them to other telecoms. if you don’t like fios, you can’t go back to regular phone service.

    http://tinyurl.com/2asbqd

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