Why don't service providers tell you what it costs? In this mobile post, I inveigh against the practice of hiding one's prices coyly, like the menu at an expensive restaurant.
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Why don't service providers tell you what it costs? In this mobile post, I inveigh against the practice of hiding one's prices coyly, like the menu at an expensive restaurant.
The reason that the vendors obfuscate their rates is to make it next to impossible to compare one company's offerings with another. It is a well known ploy, played by companies around the world, and has often been commented on by consumer associations. Hidden fees, so called 'rate caps' which are actually minimum charges; charges that look like a tax but that 'aren't a Government tax'; obscene download charges that are quoted 'per kilobyte'.....it just goes on and on!