Verizon not having a good week…

From the folks who brought you the
"exploding phone"... It was reported today that Verizon overstated their subscribers by 1.5 million.

Verizon said it found the error as part of an internal review and blamed the overstatement on "an internal system
database issue." It said the error would not affect its revenue and would be corrected in its next quarterly
report.

Verizon Wireless is also buying the wireless assets from Qwest for $418 million, but they're not getting their subscribers. All we have to say is, way to go Qwest, you totally worked'em over, you got the cash and got to keep the customers.

Someone needs to hold a mirror up to all these carriers: they spend about $250 million in marketing a year each,
overcharge us, underserve us, make us sign really long crummy contacts, keep our text messages, and don't seem to be able to deliver accurate information for investors or get the services we were all promised out the door. If they did things right, we'd all pay a lot less. Sorry for the rant here, but it would be nice to say, "I love my cell phone provider" once and awhile.