WOW. US telecom companies are not as evil as their Canadian counterparts!

Because of all the insurance matters, I was going to go over my 450-minute voice plan. My friend told me to call Verizon and ask to be moved to the next tier so that I wouldn’t get a huge overage bill. I couldn’t imagine Verizon agreeing to that, but I called them anyway.

I explained to the gal that my usage this month was exceptional because of the accident, bla, bla, and asked if it would be possible to be moved to the next tier, 900 minutes, for this period and then brought back down to the 450-minute tier next month.

“Gee, your billing cycle ends in five days. I can’t imagine you using up 450 minutes in that amount of time! How about I just add 200 complimentary minutes to your account and leave your plan as-is?”

They can do that here?!