One thing that rubs me the wrong but same way about stories like this, certain layoffs, ads in paid subscriptions, the sales of personal data, and shoddy-safe planes falling out of the sky, is the insincerity of it. Verizon is charging a separate hidden fee, supposedly to pay for gov't fees, but it's not a gov't mandated fee. Anyone with eyes open can smell the double talk. It's tiresome to constantly be lied to and need to be guarding against institutional pickpockets.