Many mobile phone service providers are generally corrupt and greedy. This came out of Canada this week:

"Canadians have been misled by the carriers into thinking the access fee — typically between $6.95 and $8.95 a month — was a tax by the government or the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, when in fact it was simply extra revenue for cellphone companies.

The suit was filed on behalf of more than 14 million monthly cellphone subscribers, or nearly half the country's population."

This is a $19-billion class-action lawsuit.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/06/28/cellphone-class-action-lawsuit.html

It makes me sick to think about the things we could do to these businesses if people just organized long enough to make themselves heard. We could have all these companies begging for our business and bending over backwards to make us happy. Imagine what a phone company would do if, for one day, all their unhappy customers decided to call in and cancel their service. Just imagine the kind of sheer chaos and paranoia something like that could achieve. Instead, this guy goes to jail, and the only people he affected were the low-paid, street-level employees who probably couldn't to anything to help him anyway. It just makes me sick. What a waste.

Well said!
>> ^Ryjkyj:

It makes me sick to think about the things we could do to these businesses if people just organized long enough to make themselves heard. We could have all these companies begging for our business and bending over backwards to make us happy. Imagine what a phone company would do if, for one day, all their unhappy customers decided to call in and cancel their service. Just imagine the kind of sheer chaos and paranoia something like that could achieve. Instead, this guy goes to jail, and the only people he affected were the low-paid, street-level employees who probably couldn't to anything to help him anyway. It just makes me sick. What a waste.

His name is Jason Codner, 42, charged with a public order offence and criminal damage and is due to appear in court on July 30th. Apparently he became upset after learning he wasn't entitled to a certain refund.

Corporate disobedience.

>> ^Ryjkyj:

It makes me sick to think about the things we could do to these businesses if people just organized long enough to make themselves heard. We could have all these companies begging for our business and bending over backwards to make us happy. Imagine what a phone company would do if, for one day, all their unhappy customers decided to call in and cancel their service. Just imagine the kind of sheer chaos and paranoia something like that could achieve. Instead, this guy goes to jail, and the only people he affected were the low-paid, street-level employees who probably couldn't to anything to help him anyway. It just makes me sick. What a waste.


Yeah that's what bothers me, it's like in poor neighborhoods they get mad and steal from their neighbors instead of doing something about it. Because they think it's hopeless, that they have no chance. Much bigger systemic issues here but on the Mobile phone side we have to do better to not accept their bullshit, maybe go back to not having cell phones for awhile.

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