Comcast blasted for seeking “loopholes” in rule requiring disclosure of all fees.
If your billing is too complicated to be accurately described to your customers, then you may have put yourself in a situation where you are incapable of being honest with your customers. That’s on you.
It’s the job of regulators to ensure that you are honest with your customers; therefore, they can reasonably forbid you from having billing so complicated that it cannot be described accurately.
It’s funny, my local ISP tells me I owe X dollars a month and that’s what I pay. How on earth do they do that? Comcast is telling us it can’t possibly be that simple
The airlines managed to figure it out, weirdly enough. Calculating the price of an airline seat is Turing-complete, and at least one airline software service, ITA, needed the runtime compilation feature of Common Lisp to do it efficiently. Yes, when a user asked for a ticket price, their systems wrote and compiled a piece of code to determine the answer.
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit…
Oml thats actually insane and incredible. My goodness wow
I’d love to have a local option. We get spectrum or wind stream, which means spectrum. They charge whatever they want because they have a pseudo monopoly.
mine even manages to do it for the price they advertise. and without a data cap. and without having to have a comcrap router in order to pay more to not have a data cap. i had my own router i didnt want to use theirs mine was better. but the only way i could find to pay to not deal with the cap was to have their router. fuck that.
“We don’t know what they are until we charge you.”
Boohoo Comcast. Hopefully the FCC tells them to get wrecked.
If the FCC is anything like the SEC/DOJ I wouldn’t hold my breath. All of these regulatory agencies are regulatory captured via the revolving door.
Can’t wait to try this during tax season next year
lol, my thoughts exactly
Man do I ever get sick of corpo bullshit
Too hard to disclose fees but easy to charge them huh
I think that’s the point?
Nonono it’s simple when we bill you, just too hard to list it upfront.
If it is too hard/difficult for a company to itemize all their fees, they are charging way too many fees.
Funny, it was never too hard when they billed me.
Comcast: “But I am le tired.”
(This reference goes back a few years, kids!)Then have a nap… AND THEN POST ZE FEES!
F$cking Kangaroos!! …can we curse on here??
This is the internet, you can say whatever the fuck you want.
Fuck yeah!
Oh god now I feel both nostalgic and old at the same time.
I thought the end of the world and “I JUST WANT BANG BANG BANG” was the funniest shit ever back then.
It’s a simple solution, Comcast. Don’t charge any fee you aren’t willing to spend the effort to disclose.
That’s some straight up gaslighting shit. If they can figure out to charge it, they can print it on a bill.
Typical corporate lawyer speak.
Comcast is a truly rotten company. Like without fail they continue to impress me on their new clever ways of misleading customers. Like remember “10G” from earlier this year…?
That headline is some NotTheOnion material.
post it on there then ;)
Slightly off-topic but has kbin re-enabled federation?
it has yeah
Done. Glad to see so many subs making it over.
Ooh does that community exist here? Forgot about it!
Nonono it’s easy to charge you, it’s just hard to disclose it. Duh
